Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way -- all this comes of Authorship.
Quotes about fretful (10 Quotes)
I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.
The great physician, Dr. Henry G. Armitage, Jr., states, 'Not without comment shall it come to pass that a state (so fretful for the preservation of the praying mantis but holding an unborn baby to be of no account) can send a spark of immortality swinging out into limbo and conspire with citizen and physician to turn a fragile, living object of simple innocence and complex wonder into a pathetic pulp and consign it by rude and peremptory passage to the furnace or sewer unknown, unwanted and undefended.' He further questions how a woman as 'the fertile adornment of our race can be deluded into the notion that she is a mere poetress of unwanted luggage or be by blandishment seduced into believing that she has dominion over life not her own.' He says, 'An abortion is never commonplace, for the world holds no heartbreak like the death of innocence.'
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious tenacious of their own practices and maxims soon offended by contradiction or negligence. . .
For smaller businesses, their budgets are often so tight that they're really fretful about putting money into prevention because they're not sure it's a tangible investment for them.
LINDBERGH FLIES ALONE Alone Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given.
The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise for goodness, and we are not good for overcoming evil, and evil remains for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.