Bewail Quotes
16 quotes by 13 authors
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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
— Aeschylus
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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and…
— Nicolas Steno
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To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.
— Pope Gregory I
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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
— Sophocles
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
— Sophocles
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Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do…
— Khalil Gibran
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It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain…
— David Riesman
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We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.
— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
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To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
— Mason Cooley
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
— Baruch Spinoza
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Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Bewail Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 16 Bewail Quotes as follows: