Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Cornelia Funke

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

David Levithan

As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

John Donne

Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

Mahatma Gandhi

Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Amanda Butler

They know it's not a sickness they can get.

Flannery O'Connor

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

J. C. Ryle

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

Boris Johnson

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

Hope Solo

I know that I'm breaking down barriers. And I know that in the end I'm doing a great thing.

Lauren Bacall

I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.