Love is a thing full of anxious fears. [ Ovid ]
Let Observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being ever resigned;
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? [ Gray ]
That anxious torture may I never feel,
Which doubtful, watches over a wandering heart.
O, who that bitter torment can reveal.
Or tell the pining anguish of that smart! [ Byron ]
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [ Seneca ]
Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. [ Beaconsfield ]
That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth. [ Publius Syrus ]
I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live. [ Goethe ]
Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain. [ Rousseau ]
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. [ Burke ]
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer. [ Horace ]
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. [ Robert Hall ]
America is a Paradise for women - that is why, like Eve, the American women are extremely anxious to get out of it. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Lips become compressed and drawn with anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are quenched of their fires by many tears. [ S. Lover ]
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. [ Goethe ]
Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty! [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]
Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. [ Rogers ]
This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]