No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or so distressed the comfortable. (Of Eleanor Roosevelt)
Comfort Quotes
We lead lives inferior to ourselves, said philosopher William James – lives that don’t reflect our real ability. One reason we do: It’s more comfortable not to try hard. But life is, or should be, a struggle: Comfort should make us uncomfortable; contentment should make us discontented. Runners embrace that philosophy. In common with most […]
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don’t feel all that comfortable with people who are.
If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time.
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
Blessed be God… who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)
