(132 quotes found)
“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty”
Winston Churchill
“My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.”
William Shakespeare
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse”
Paulo Coelho
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
“And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”
Daniel Defoe
“The common curse of mankind, -- folly and ignorance.”
“An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.”
John Gay
“Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans”
Candice Bergen
“It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine”
Charles Darwin
“Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.”
William Arthur Ward