Crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of organised life
~ George Bernard Shaw
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
~
P.G. Wodehouse
Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost (the Curse of Kehama).
~
Robert Southey
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
~
Samuel Davies
The inspired Bible has been and is the greatest curse of Christendom, and will so remain as long as it is held to be inspired.
~
Robert Green Ingersoll
Maybe he thinks the gypsies have put a curse on me - he's very superstitious, you know.
~
Stan Bowles
Oh! I will curse thee till thy frighted soul
Runs mad with horror
~
Nathaniel Lee
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor.It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.
~ Irish Proverbs
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
~
John Gay
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest
and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
~
Henry Louis Mencken
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
~
William Faulkner
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions
can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
~
Hannah Arendt
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
~
E F Schumacher
Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked fom side to side; 'The curse is come upon me,' cried The Lady of Shalott.
~
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world.
I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots
~
Henry Miller
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
~ Winston Churchill
I'm really clumsy, so I trip and fall a lot. And every time I perform in New York my pants split onstage. That's happened
four or five times. Every time, I pull on my mom's jeans as fast as I can, so there we are, standing backstage without our pants on. It's like a curse.
~
Jessica Simpson
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
~
Eleanor Roosevelt
Telephones! The curse of idle women.
~
Axel Munthe
Cancelled that curse which was our mortal dower! It is the Cross!
~
Sir Aubrey De Vere
The curse of television is the programming department - where all are trained to look for the same kind of show.
~
Herbert Brodkin
He was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought.
Known to the Chinese as Master Kong and to the rest of the world as Confucius, he created a philosophy
based on virtue and believed in honesty, respect, sincerity.
Confucius taught that it was not the satisfaction of the senses in the present moment that would bring true
happiness, but well-planned actions and the helping of fellow man which mattered most.
(551-479 BCE)
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Voltaire
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
~ Robert Fulghum
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham LincolnMore Proverbs
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