Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead Copy Share Image
Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down… — William Langland Copy Share Image
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If one understands that worldly life is the result of scientific circumstantial evidence (vyavasthit); then that will reduce many of one’s miseries.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making. — John Currin Copy Share Image
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
“surround yourself in a pool of misery and you too shall drown in it - (G Swiss)” — G Swiss Copy Share Image
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Woman is not at fault, sex is not at fault; the fault is in your tendencies [vruti]. The tendencies indeed interfere and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
