Oh, but reasoning is so much worse than scolding!... I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy!
Quotes about scolding (10 Quotes)
I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.
I got a pretty good scolding in the locker room at halftime. I took it to heart and picked up my defensive intensity. I frustrated some people, got into their heads. I was having fun out there.
Some mistakenly misread the mercy and graciousness of God. For instance, some partial believers are always scolding God, or disregarding Him, because of the observable and lamentable consequences of our misuse of God's gift to us of moral agency. It is as if a teenage son, given his first car, promptly had an accident with resulting pain, suffering, and expense, and the errant son then railed at his father for permitting the suffering resulting from the son's misuse of the gift of the automobile. Granted, in defense of the analogy, mortal parents ought not to give youngsters automobiles too soon, and then only when they have provided wise counsel, driver training, and so on. But there still comes a time when, if they are ever to drive alone, trained teenagers must be left alone at the wheel. The principle is the same with us in the second estate.
It wasn't really a scolding. It was just one of those things where he expects a lot out of me, and he just wants me to go out and have a great year. He just wants me to play great football.
We came out real flat and really didn't play a good first period. Then we took the upper hand. It took a little bit of a scolding in the first (intermission), but that's what it took (to get us going).
Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. 'don't forget me,' you whispered the day you died. I won't.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.