Ease

Famous quotes containing the word ease:

“... to many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

“When first the college rolls receive his name,
The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame;
Through all his veins the fever of renown
Burns from the strong contagion of the gown;”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)