“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.”
William Shakespeare
“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain”
C.S. Lewis
“'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny”
William Archer
“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
Raymond Chandler
“Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
Wilfred Owen
“Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them”
Thomas Fuller
“I see TV ads about detergents that can get blood stains out of your cloths. I say if you have blood stains on your cloths you should be thinking about something other than laundry”
Jerry Seinfield