Vexation Quotes

46 Vexation quotes by 39 unique authors

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation! — Ferdinand Lassalle
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. — Michel de Montaigne
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. — Francois Rabelais
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of… — Laurence Sterne
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. — Max Ehrmann
However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw… — Neil Gaiman
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company… — Thomas Paine
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever… — Jane Austen
When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism… — Karen Armstrong
Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an… — Michael Cunningham
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I… — Anne Bronte
It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to… — Jane Austen
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The… — Charlotte Bronte
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be… — Bible
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that mayhappen in… — Marcus Aurelius
Touch inna yuh glue, trust mi it sticky bad. Tru mi say yuh a lead, a vexation dat cause. — Mad Cobra

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