Quotes related to Proverbs 12:25
When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."
— Anonymous
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere.
— Anonymous
Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."
— Anonymous
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.
— Anonymous
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard. --Disgrace
— JM Coetzee
Nothing is worse than what we can imagine.
— JM Coetzee
She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.
— Jack Kerouac