Curse Quotes

Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

It's not like I want to put myself on a high horse, but I just don't curse a lot.

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.

Sorry, Jesus, I have to curse!

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.

I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.

First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

I have a jar at home, and I put pennies in it whenever I curse. The other day I spilled the jar. I owe it about $25.

The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing. But in our culture we apply for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture.

The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge

The curse of the great is ennui.

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

We bless and curse ourselves.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.

Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.