80 Vexation Quotes
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Famous Vexation Quotes
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. — Mark Twain
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. — Ovid
You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.] — Plautus
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker
It is the truth that irritates a person. — Proverbs
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. — Eric Hoffer
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure — Fanny Burney
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet
Anger is short madness — Horace
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. — Proverbs
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us. — Marcus Aurelius
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. — Seneca
Short Vexation Quotes
- Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. — Max Ehrmann
- If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. — Sun Tzu
- Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations — Marcus Aurelius
- I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still. — Michel de Montaigne
- A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation! — Ferdinand Lassalle
- Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. — Orville Dewey
- Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. — Juvenal
Vexation Of Life Quotes
There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle. — Henry Thomas Hamblin
A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. — Sun Tzu
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! — Laurence Sterne
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. — Rachel Carson
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. — Marcus Aurelius
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities. — Isaac D'Israeli
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. — Jane Austen
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long. — Lao Tzu
Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with. — William Henry Drummond
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More Vexation Quotes
Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce. — Damian Marley
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. — Francis of Assisi
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. — Sun Tzu
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair. — Blaise Pascal
The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it. — Francois Guizot
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. — Francois Rabelais
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation. — Michel de Montaigne
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. — Michel de Montaigne
Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit. — Frederic Reynolds
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation. — Jane Austen
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. — Martin Luther
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit. — Anne Bronte
Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most. — Michel de Montaigne
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. — Samuel Johnson
However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot. — Neil Gaiman
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family. — George Santayana
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation. — Jeremy Collier
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness. — Thomas Paine
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors. — Benjamin Franklin
The many troubles in your household will tend to your edification, if you strive to bear them all in gentleness, patience, and kindness. Keep this ever before you, and remember constantly that God's loving eyes are upon you amid all these little worries and vexations, watching whether you take them as He would desire. Offer up all such occasions to Him, and if sometimes you are put out, and give way to impatience, do not be discouraged, but make haste to regain your lost composure. — St. François de Sales
Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation. — Catherine Wilson
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. — Francis Bacon
Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course. — Francois FeNelon
In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called "emotion" and its concomitant of evaluation. — Richard M. Weaver
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