Curses are like young chickens,
And still come home to roost! [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Oh! I will curse thee til! thy frighted soul
Runs mad with horror. [ Lee ]

Down to the dust! and as thou rottest away,
Even worms shall perish on thy poisonous clay. [ Byron ]

Charity, which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. [ William Shakespeare ]

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. [ Beecher ]

Frequently the curses of men bring the blessings of Heaven. [ Lamennais ]

Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes. [ Bailey ]

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that. [ Christian Scriver ]

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. [ Beecher ]

My May of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

Talk, except as the preparation for work, is worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world. [ Carlyle ]