Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of flesh.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

There's a stigma about reality shows and the people who star in them. Reality shows mean your career will end, your marriage will be cursed, you have to fight and/or throw a drink, or you're going to end up broke and a has-been when the series ends.

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I'd been cursed. And I've never had that feeling.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I've grown up around some incredibly funny people, which has been a blessing and curse because now I've been completely spoiled in terms of what I find funny.

To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.

Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm writing.