Skill is no burden. [ Proverb ]
Respect the burden. [ Napoleon ]
Old age is a heavy burden to man.
Even too much praise is a burden. [ Proverb ]
Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste;
Still I would not have thee cold,
Not too backward or too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]
To friendship every burden's light. [ Gay ]
I live an idle burden to the ground [ Homer ]
Bear the burden of the present,
Let the morrow bear its own;
If the morning sky be pleasant.
Why the coming night bemoan?
Holy strivings nerve and strengthen,
Long endurance wins the crown;
When the evening shadows lengthen,
Thou shalt lay the burden down. [ Thomas Mackellar ]
My yoke is easy and my burden light. [ Jesus ]
Strive
In offices of love how me may lighten
Each other's burden. [ Milton ]
Light is the burden love lays on;
Content and love brings peace and joy,
What mair hae queens upon a throne? [ Burns ]
Every one thinks his own burden heavy. [ French Proverb ]
The folly of a mother is a heavy burden. [ Racine ]
Since you will buckle fortune on my back;
To bear her burden whe'r I will or no,
I must have patience to endure the load. [ William Shakespeare ]
None knows the weight of another's burden. [ Proverb ]
The fisher droppeth his net in the stream,
And a hundred streams are the same as one;
And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;
And what is it all, when all is done?
The net of the fisher the burden breaks
And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes. [ Alice Cary ]
Even wit is a burden when it talks too long. [ Dryden ]
No one knows the weight of another's burden. [ Proverb ]
The burden which is well borne becomes light. [ Ovid ]
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. [ Johnson ]
Let us no more contend, nor blame
Each other, blam'd enough elsewhere, but strive
In offices of love, how we may lighten
Each other's burden, in our share of woe. [ Milton ]
Never give up! or the burden may sink you,
Providence wisely has mingled the cup;
And in all trials and troubles bethink you,
The watchword of life should be, Never give up! [ M. F. Tupper ]
Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden. [ Proverb ]
The burden becomes light which cheerfully borne. [ Ovid ]
The burden becomes light that is shared by love. [ Ovid ]
Three helping one another bear the burden of six. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An ass endures his burden, but not more than his burden. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
His learning overbalances his brain, and so is a burden. [ Proverb ]
His exalted rank weighs heavy on him as a grievous burden. [ Seneca ]
It is a sad burden for a woman to carry a dead man's child. [ Proverb ]
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous! [ Voltaire ]
No burden is really heavy to a man which necessity lays on him.
More than we use is more than we want, and a burden to the bearer. [ Proverb ]
Be a man!
Bear thine own burden; never think to thrust thy fate upon another. [ Robert Browning ]
The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. [ Laboulaye ]
The world is all perfect except where man comes with his burden of woe. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Debt is a heavy burden to an honest mind, but thievish borrowers make light of it. [ Proverb ]
Mortals, what errors are yours! You have but an instant to live, and that instant is a burden.
Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The presence of the wretched is a burden to the happy; and alas! the happy still more so to the wretched. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. [ La Harpe ]
Woman among savages is a beast of burden; in Asia, she is a piece of furniture; in Europe, she is a spoiled child. [ Senac de Meilhan ]
True art, which requires free and healthy faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which crushes the soul under a burden. [ Hamerton ]
We deem those happy who, from their experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without descanting on the burden. [ Juv ]
A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer. [ James Hamilton ]
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. [ Milton ]
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us in solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. [ J. Collier ]
Life would be easy enough if we were not continually exerting ourselves to forge new chains, and invent absurd formalities which make it a burden.
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. [ George Macdonald ]
He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him. [ Bishop Hall ]
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. [ St. Augustine ]
Many a man lives a burden upon the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life. [ Milton ]
The junk you collect today is the garbage your children have to deal with after you die. Don't burden them with this. They have their own lives to live. Don't make garbage your legacy.
There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. [ Matthew Henry ]
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. [ Spurgeon ]
Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor, and conscience, to obtain them: it is to pay so dear for them that the bargain is a loss. [ Bruyere ]
Every man must bear his own burden, and it is a fine thing to see any one trying to do it manfully; carrying his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in a way which makes you hope that he has taken for his pattern the greatest of all sufferers. [ James Hamilton ]
Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business - all who have got a task to do, a work to finish - bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose - till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned. [ James Hamilton ]
If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]