Quotes
Quotes about Stress
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.
Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it.
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis E terra magnum alterius spectare laborum.]
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.]
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I deliver you a fleet that is mistress of the seas."
Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.
Fly pride, says the peacock: mistress, that you know.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
