quotes and sayings about pain

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ~John Maynard Keynes


Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold


The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief." ~James Naismith


We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. ~Frank Moore Colby


A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Mediocrity is a hand-rail. ~Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Mes pensees


By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. ~Barbara Holland


I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden." ~St Augustine


It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville


A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. ~Mark Twain


Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. ~Felix G. Rohatyn, New York Times, 3 June 1987


The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem


Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth


Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ~Sam Ewing


Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness


Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb


The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome. ~Author Unknown


A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries


Draft beer, not people. ~Attributed to Bob Dylan