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George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased · George Carlin, You Are All Diseased · George W. Bush, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524-3.html · Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03 · Sid Ceaser · William Shakspeare, Julius Ceaser

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. – Hesiod
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
There are those things that we find ourselves at ease to do in private,and as such form the most potent of our human nature.However such practices are,habitually,not of a virtuous parturition.We must find ourselves,in more ways than once,troubled by such practices,much concerning their unfittingness.When such happenings are fostered,they become fixative,and their most dangerous form comes when the mind is deluded,slowly as it has been learnt, into believing the previous to be right and acceptable. – lot chakonza
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. – J. Willard Marriott
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. – Nicolas Boileau
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain. – Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
A gentle breeze, a rustle of leaves, it's times like this life pleases with ease. – Aaron J. Munzer
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. – Joseph Addison
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. – Lois McMaster Bujold
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds. – Jeremy Taylor
Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. – Douglas Malloch
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. – Benjamin Franklin
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. – Euripides
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. – Euripides, Electra, 413 B.C.
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. – Ansel Adams
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back. – Leo Tolstoy
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. – Lawana Blackwell
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. – William Lyon Phelps
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain. – Emily Dickinson
If thou desirest ease in this life, keep thy secrets undisclosed, like the modest rosebud. Take warning from that lovely flower, which, by expanding its hitherto hidden beauties when in full bloom, gives its leaves and its happiness to the winds. – Persian
Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite. – William Blake
No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon - No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November! – Thomas Hood (1799-1845), in the poem called No!

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