Comforts Quotes

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.