Quotes About Burden

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.