Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Robert Burns

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
Leon Kass

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
Thomas Sydenham

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
John Chamberlain

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
Joseph Butler

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Charles de Montesquieu

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.
Alex Campbell

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
Russell Simmons

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.
Jane Byrne

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
Allen Klein

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
Jose Marti

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.
Henry Reed

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
Cal Thomas

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
King Edward VIII

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
Hattie McDaniel

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Walter Benjamin

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.
Joan Van Ark

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
Allen Tate

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
William Bartram