Vex Quotes

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.