It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
Yves Saint Laurent

It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.
Ruth J. Simmons

Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel de Cervantes

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
Ada Cambridge

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
Charles Churchill

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
John Philips

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.
Vladimir Mayakovsky

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
David Brainerd

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.
Greg Norman

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Joseph Joubert

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Maria Monk