curse quotes

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

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

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!

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.