Pains Quotes
609 Pains quotes by 439 unique authors
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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?…
— Agnes Repplier
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,…
— Hippocrates
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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please…
— Plautus
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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as…
— George Santayana
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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
— Oscar Wilde
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Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I smoke till I got chest pains
— Lil Wayne
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe,…
— Robert Southey
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Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,…
— Samuel Johnson
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What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing…
— Russell Hoban
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The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their…
— Erwin Rommel
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In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance…
— Meher Baba
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Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities…
— Mike Royko
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Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that…
— John Zachary Young
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If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains and trials of…
— Henry Suso
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Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to…
— Isaac Asimov
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be…
— David Hume
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Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.
— James Harvey Robinson
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Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also…
— Donald Trump
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