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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Phyllis Diller

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Frank Leahy

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Mary Stewart

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles
Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD)

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

Herb Caen

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay
English author & politician (1800 - 1859)

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Frank Leahy

One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Greek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC)

The pain passes. The beauty remains.

Auguste Renoir

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot
English economist & journalist (1826 - 1877)

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
US novelist (1896 - 1940)

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa, -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
Indian humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997)

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.

Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow"
British humor writer (1859 - 1927)

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa
Indian humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997)

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