Aggravation Quotes

• A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Literature, Sadness Of Life

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator; with Notes, and a General Index”, p.346

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• If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Funny, Jobs

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• War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Peace, War, Solutions

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• What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Loss, Fortune Cookie

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• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  Walker Percy

  Heartbreak, Grief, Loss

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• Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

  Liane Moriarty

  Insanity, Hovering, Form

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• To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often, but I hated it when it did. It was faulty wiring in the female body, tear ducts attached directly to the frustration meter. Trying to explain to men that no, I wasn't being manipulative, I just couldn't stop my eyes from leaking salt water, only added to the aggravation.

  C.E. Murphy

  Girl, Real, Eye

  C.E. Murphy (2010). “Demon Hunts”, p.151, LUNA

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• What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Spiritual, Past

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• When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Truth, Men

  Remark to Baron von Humboldt, 1807, in Rayner 'Life of Jefferson' (1834) p. 356

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• The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Self, Publicity

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 10

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Pain, Integrity

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.251

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• It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

  Albert Wynn

  Gang Members, Years, Important

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• It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

  Dave Edmunds

  Interesting, Argument, Sometimes

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• Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stress, Holiday, Vacation

  "Cool Memories".

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• Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  Harold H. Greene

  Judging, Grids, Disparity

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• I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Thinking, Coaches

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• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny Inspirational, Knowledge, Men

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

  Moshe Dayan

  Advice, Arms, Decline

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• I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

  Ezra Cornell

  Cousin, Determination, Race

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• Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

  Nina Hagen

  Selfless Giving, People, Littles

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• A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Character, Blow, Judging

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.13

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• A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

  Robert Breault

  Vacation, Two, Forgotten

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• As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Family, Christmas, Struggle

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• Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

  William Osler

  Hard Work, Dust, Silence

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

  Joseph Addison

  Sight, Parent, Loaded

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