Ease

Famous quotes containing the word ease:

“Wilful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement.... No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

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

“That having ease me given,
With full delight,
I leave this light;
And take my flight
For Heaven.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)