Patriotism is a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood and narrows the mind. - Unknown
Patriotism is a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood and narrows the mind.
- Unknown
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. - Mark Twain
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
- Mark Twain
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. - J. Horace Mcfarland
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
- J. Horace Mcfarland
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment. - Will Rogers
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
- Will Rogers
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell - that monster called Pain. - Philip Sidney
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell - that monster called Pain.
- Philip Sidney
Who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain larks you, but too deep to see. - Margaret Atwood
Who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain larks you, but too deep to see.
- Margaret Atwood
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure. - English Proverb
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
- English Proverb
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. - Samuel Johnson
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
- Samuel Johnson
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. - Khalil Gibran
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
- Khalil Gibran
Pain can be controlled, you just disconnect it. - James Cameron
Pain can be controlled, you just disconnect it.
- James Cameron
The best way of handling pain was to study it objectively. - Arthur C. Clarke
The best way of handling pain was to study it objectively.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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