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  • Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedness, disgrace. The second are of success, bliss, love, financial progress, etc. The third are only for the select, pure and holy souls and bring inexhaustible happiness.

    Pain   Soul   Progress  
  • The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

    Men   Anxiety   Battle  
    Attributed to Locker's Greenwich Gallery article "Torrington" in Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan "The Life of Nelson, Volume 2: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain" (p. 52), 1897.
  • Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

    Acting   Actors   Dull  
    'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 40
  • I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

    Humor   Men   Law  
    Sherman Edwards, Peter Stone (1976). “1776: A Musical Play”, Penguin Group USA
  • This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them - even the wicked cannot glory in them.

    Sorry   Taken   Angel  
    Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 03”
  • There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

  • The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

    School   Lines   Fields  
    "Why the penalty laws should change" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2011.
  • Only a Europe that is conscious of its own values can be both an economically strong and a morally and intellectually respected partner, and thereby extend its hospitality to others. It's a cultural disgrace that we are forced to identify no-go areas for foreigners.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

    Success   Business   Keys  
    "Less Than Artful Choices: Narcissistic Personality Disorder According to Donald Trump" by Maria Konnikova, bigthink.com. 2017.
  • Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

    Fashion   Morning   Doors  
    Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam
  • It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

  • I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

    "Carter: Iraq War is 'Unjust'". www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2005.
  • The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

  • Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

    Money   Poverty   Wealth  
  • An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

    Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson”, p.114
  • The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

    "Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47, 1992.
  • The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

    Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
  • At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

    Exercise   Iraq   House  
  • It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

    Lying   Fall   Men  
  • He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

    Friendship   Men   Honor  
    Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc
  • I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.

  • He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

    Success   Failure   Son  
  • Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.

  • The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

  • No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

    Workout   Bad Ass   Men  
  • If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.

    Sadness   Cry   Disgrace  
    Song: A Mess of Blues
  • There's a difference between what I would like to have been and what I would have been. I always fantasized about being a reforming judge or prison governor (I think that the UK penal system is a disgrace) - but it's fantasy.

  • A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

  • Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!

    Garden   Eden   Naked  
    FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 17, 2012
  • Let me speak to you as someone who is a republican, like Stuart Stevens who worked for Romney, right? He said if Barack Obama in '08 had said, oh, you know, [Vladimir] Putin is better than George W. Bush as a leader, he said republicans would have said Obama, get out of the race. You're a disgrace to the American people.

    Race   People   Leader  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
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