No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. — Max Planck
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. — Max Muller
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours. — Euripides
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility. — King Edward VIII
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. — Voltaire
There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential. — Charles M. Schulz
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. — Wayne Dyer
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. — Saint Augustine
The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting! — Neal A. Maxwell
It is a curse, being blessed with so much to offer. — Gannicus
Short Onerous Quotes
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. — John Selden
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. — Amy Tan
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. — Victoria Woodhull
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself. — Seneca
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task. — Roald Dahl
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Burdensome Quotes
It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death. — Ambrose Burnside
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage. — Sai Baba
Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do. — Reed Morano
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate. — Earl Blumenauer
Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity. — P. J. O'Rourke
If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened! — James Van Praagh
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. — James Madison
To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome. — K. W. Jeter
I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me. — Joel S. Goldsmith
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden. — Percy Wynham Lewis
I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that. — Kirk Douglas
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality. — Paul Watzlawick
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. — Ronald Reagan
The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth. — Gina McCarthy
The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph. — Benjamin Disraeli
Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's the highest in the industrial world by far. New and onerous crime bills are being passed to deal with this superfluous population. — Noam Chomsky
Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore. — Bruce Schneier
It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances. — Daphne Merkin
Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. — Susan Sontag
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all. — Anton Chekhov
We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition. — Joe Miller
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. — Robert Welch
Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs. — Jim Gerlach
In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. — P. J. O'Rourke
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition. — William Shatner
Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy. — David Remnick
There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives. You know, the divestment of assets, the stripping of all kinds of positions, the sale of stocks. It just becomes very onerous and unnecessary. — Hillary Clinton
When these people are going to put billions and billions of dollars into companies, and when they're going to bring $2.5 trillion back from overseas, where they can't bring the money back, because politicians like Secretary Hillary Clinton won't allow them to bring the money back, because the taxes are so onerous, and the bureaucratic red tape, so what - is so bad. — Donald Trump
For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees. — Khaled Hosseini
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden. — Wyndham Lewis
The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest. — Ludwig von Mises
Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid if that because they'd just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will. — Rick Perry
The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right. — Germaine Greer
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. — Douglas Adams
Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process. — Julian Baggini
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