Definition of Pains

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Definition of Pains
	Pains Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. Related Definitions: But, Care, Commonly, Effort, Form, Former, In, Labor, Or, Plural, Singular, Taken, The, Toilsome, Trouble, Used, Verb, With

Pains Quotations

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.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
George Washington

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret Mead

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

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Emo Philips

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne

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

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison

Pains Translations

pains in German is Qualen, Sorgen
pains in Latin is opera, negotium

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