Quotes for All
The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if any child of mine would dare be a boy.” It was a long-standing argument. “Boy,” replied Conall. “Any child as difficult as this one has been from the start must, perforce, be male.” … Read more
Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example… Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren’t and thereby happy rather than sad? Eric Allin Cornell
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them. Epicurus
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses. Edward Livingston
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many. Edward Coke
When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him. Friedrich Nietzsche
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an ‘inconvenience.’ We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those … Read more
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. Francis Bacon
Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; … Read more
The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance. Francis Atterbury