Incumbrance Quotes

#1. Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.

Augustus Toplady

#2. These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. The family as subversive of true socialistic and communal unity is to be annihilated." Yes, President, I agree completely with Article 5. A family is a terrible incumbrance, especially when one is not married.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail,
strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.

John Ruskin

#5. Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.

David Berman

#6. I was just thinking that he might be willing. It's not like he needs his semen.

Buffy Andrews

#7. I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.

Raul Julia

#8. Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Dale Carnegie

#9. The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.

Glendon Swarthout

#10. The true subject of science fiction is death, not life. It will all end. The totality of it.

Gary Shteyngart