Burthen Quotes

#1. Voiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

George Washington

#2. Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#3. His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain,
Unless He does in our affections reign.
How fond it were to wish for such a King,
And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
His service freedom, and His judgments right.

Edmund Waller

#4. Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

John Dryden

#5. That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

William Wordsworth

#6. Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Horace

#7. In every respect the burthen is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion.

John Stuart Mill

#8. A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

John Ford

#9. Cornelius Tacitus when he says, that men are readier to pay back injuries than benefits, since to requite a benefit is felt to be a burthen, to return an injury a gain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#11. Let us not burthen our remembrance with
A heaviness that's gone.

William Shakespeare

#12. A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

Ovid

#13. Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.
[Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]

George Herbert

#14. But touch me, and no minister so sore.
Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.

Alexander Pope

#15. Lilliputians think nothing can be more unjust, than for people, in subservience to their own appetites, to bring children into the world, and leave the burthen of supporting them on the public. As

Jonathan Swift

#16. I'll be ready. I'm ready right now.

Jeff Garcia

#17. The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'

Joshua Foer

#18. Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

Pat Summerall

#19. You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.

Janet Morris

#20. No matter what you do always strive to be the best".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#21. By giving away with kindness, you get it back with greatness.

Debasish Mridha