Pains Quotes

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. (Democritus)
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. View quote
Walter Bagehot
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. View quote
Joseph Addison
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. View quote
John Dryden
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. View quote
Joseph Addison
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. View quote
Joseph Addison
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
A man of pleasure is a man of pains. View quote
Edward Young
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. View quote
Joseph Joubert
We must all suffer from one of two pains the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. (Jim Rohn)
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. View quote
Edmund Burke
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. View quote
Colette
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence. View quote
Azar Nafisi
There is a pleasure in poetic pains. Which only poets know. View quote
William Cowper
Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet. View quote
Rosa Parks
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Jests that give pains are no jests. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
One who in accordance with these notes will take pains in selecting his method of construction, may count upon having something that will last. View quote
Vitruvius
Architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance. But those who have a thorough knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have the sooner attained their object and carried authority with them. View quote
Vitruvius