Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

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.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

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.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.