Curse Quotes - Page 33

• We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessing

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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• But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Beautiful, Book, Blessing

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• The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the front door to go in, you would see it in the hall; and, when you sat at your table you would see it hanging from the wall; and, when you opened your bedroom you would find it stretched upon your pillow; and, waking at night, you would feel its cold hand passing over your face and pinching at your heart. There is no home so beautiful but it may be devastated by the awful curse.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Beautiful, Wall, Home

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• Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Pride, America, Dancing

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• Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Eye, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.114

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• O Earth, so full of dreary noises!
  O men, with wailing in your voices!
  O delved gold, the wader's heap!
  O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall!
  God makes a silence through you all,
  And "giveth His beloved, sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Death, Fall, Sleep

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• Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wealth

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Past, Alcohol, United States

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• Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Morning, Blessing

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.170, tredition

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• Adjectives are the curse of America.

  Rita Mae Brown

  America, Adjectives

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• We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Travel, Horse, Ideas

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.2

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• We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Mean, Men, Creative

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• If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.

  Andrew Jackson

  Blessed, Fall, Hands

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• That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Ill Will, Way

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.863

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• Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

  Ayn Rand

  Enemy, Religion, Mankind

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• What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the word Art, it's almost like a curse on art. I do know that I want to try to get closer to myself. The older I get, the more indications I have about what it is to get closer to yourself. You try less hard. I just want to be.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose; For in your shop full many a fly is loose.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Food, Blood, Cooking

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• This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Age

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.350, Da Capo Press

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• I curse Microsoft at least once a day. I only curse Apple every other day. As I see it, that's a 100 percent improvement.

  Sam Kass

  Apples, Microsoft, Improvement

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• [The huge success of Curse of the Black Pearl] made perfect sense to me on the one hand, and at the same time, it made no sense at all, which I kind of enjoyed. Even now, with the dolls and the cereal boxes and snacks and fruit juices, it all just feels fun to me, in a Warholian way. It's absurd. It doesn't get more absurd.

  Johnny Depp

  Fun, Hands, Snacks

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• In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Blessed, Knowing, Knows

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.442, Bottletree Books LLC

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• How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Church, Wake Up, Judgment

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.24

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• When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Joy, Holiness

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.64, Lulu.com

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• Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, an encourage it in others.

  Patrick Henry

  Wise, Art, Character

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• Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time.

  Charlie Munger

  Enron Scandal, Civilization, Long

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