#curse

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. ↗

— Plato

#always #any #bettered #curse #immediate

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#curse #earlier #illiteracy #in print #inability

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#child #curse #cursing #gay #may

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other. ↗

— James Harvey Robinson

#curse #duty #everything #great #other

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse. ↗

— Chris Rock

#bill #comedian #cosby #curse #exposed

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either. ↗

— Chris Rock

#curse #either #front #i #mother

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#curse #darkness #light #sometimes #than

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#greatest #human #human race #race #selfishness

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. ↗

— William James

#any #attitude #curse #glad #grin

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#citizenship #comes #cry #curse #drunkenness