Scold Quotes
51 quotes by 50 authors
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Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be…
— Russell M. Nelson
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The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who…
— Ridgely Torrence
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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over…
— Mark Twain
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The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration;…
— William McFee
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company.…
— Will Rogers
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I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.
— Donna Summer
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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
— Mason Cooley
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all…
— Roald Dahl
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Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes,"…
— Lord Byron
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‎When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone,…
— Christopher Pike
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Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome…
— Holly Black
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Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.
— R L Stine
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Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters.†More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them…
— Rick Riordan
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The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag…
— Laura Moriarty
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Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to…
— Daniel Handler
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