Quotes
Quotes about Comfort
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
There are half-invented people and half-conceived actions in my brain and these have to be completed and released into novels for the sake of my own comfort
Her brain was furnished with all the rubbish that the expert promoters of American values, comfort and stimulants could provide
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedomsâto choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they areâchaff and grain togetherâcertain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest awayâ¦.
I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.
The Hare and the Tortoise A hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race. The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue. Slow but steady wins the race.
