Suffer and expect. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better suffer ill than do ill. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If thou canst not suffer - die! [ A. de Musset ]
It is the lot of man to suffer. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
To weep is not always to suffer. [ Mme. de Genlis ]
Oh, fear not in a world like this.
And thou shalt know ere long, -
Know how sublime a thing it is,
To suffer and be strong. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Light Of Stars ]
Still we love
The evil we do, until we suffer it. [ Johnson ]
The tall oak, towering to the skies,
The fury of the wind defies,
From age to age, in virtue strong.
Inured to stand, and suffer wrong. [ Montgomery ]
He'll never do right, nor suffer wrong. [ Proverb ]
It is better to suffer wrong than do it. [ Proverb ]
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. [ Bruyere ]
Those who covet much suffer from the want. [ Horace ]
As many suffer from too much as too little. [ Bovee ]
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. [ William Shakespeare ]
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade. [ Montaigne ]
What can they suffer that do not fear to die? [ Plutarch ]
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. [ Seneca ]
It is hard to suffer wrong and pay for it too. [ Proverb ]
It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity. [ Massinger ]
What art thou, thou idol ceremony?
What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? [ William Shakespeare ]
We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body. [ William Shakespeare ]
To be happy is not to enjoy: it is not to suffer. [ Raspail ]
We rarely confess that we deserve what we suffer. [ Quesnel ]
Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood. [ Danish Proverb ]
True valour knows as well how to suffer as to act. [ Proverb ]
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. [ Proverb ]
He that gives all before he dies provides to suffer. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide;
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. [ Milton ]
Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd, who never was born. [ Prior ]
Better ten guilty escape than one innocent man suffer. [ Proverb ]
I will not suffer you to pay for this in another world. [ Proverb ]
Suffer no hour to slide by without its due improvement. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
It is better to suffer than to lose the power of suffering. [ Walter Savage Landor ]
Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer for our past sins. [ George Eliot ]
He that will not suffer evil must never think of preferment. [ Proverb ]
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. [ Zimmermann ]
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures. [ Bailey ]
Suffer thyself to be led in everything but feeling and thinking. [ Sallet ]
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [ Phaedrus ]
Accident ever varies; substance can never suffer change or decay. [ Wm. Blake ]
And am I to suffer for it because I was born a man? Is pity a sin? [ Friedrich Schiller ]
There is no torture that a woman would not suffer to enhance her beauty. [ Montaigne ]
He who gives of his wealth before dying, prepares himself to suffer much. [ Italian Proverb ]
As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind. [ Bovee ]
He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe. [ William Shakespeare ]
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. [ Bible ]
If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science' as to suffer it to stagnate. [ Burke ]
The pains that excite the least pity in women are those that we suffer for them. [ Chabanon ]
Do not take women from the bedside of those who suffer: it is their post of honor. [ Mme. Cecille Fee ]
No woman or man need ever suffer from ennui or despair; the panacea is occupation. [ Mme. de Surin ]
Men call physicians only when they suffer; women, when they are merely afflicted with ennui. [ Mme. de Genlis ]
We're not ourselves when Nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with the body. [ William Shakespeare ]
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. [ Gottfried von Strassburg ]
We are hampered, alas! in our course of life quite as much by what we do as by what we suffer. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Fear to do base, unworthy things, is valor; if they be done to us, to suffer them is valor too. [ Ben Jonson ]
I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things. [ Stanislaus ]
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. [ Colton ]
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. [ Johnson ]
Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. [ Jesus ]
A man selects his enemies, his friends make themselves, and from these friends he is apt to suffer. [ Donn Piatt ]
It is seldom that God sends such calamities upon man as men bring upon themselves and suffer willingly. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. [ Victor Hugo ]
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. [ Wieland ]
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. [ Seneca ]
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
If hearty sorrow be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here; I do as truly suffer, as ever I did commit. [ William Shakespeare ]
If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged; they are fatted for destruction, thou are dieted for health. [ Fuller ]
A man of genius may sometimes suffer a miserable sterility; but at other times he will feel himself the magician of thought. [ John Foster ]
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation. [ Swift ]
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer. [ Professor Vinet ]
Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. [ Juv ]
Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah ! there is the sting of life. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Whatever you suffer deservedly should be borne with resignation; the penalty that comes upon us undeservedly comes as a matter of just complaint. [ Ovid ]
This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself. [ Aughey ]
It is equally dangerous to believe and to disbelieve; therefore search diligently into the truth rather than suffer an erroneous impression to pervert your judgment. [ Phaedr ]
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Many are not able to suffer and endure prosperity; it is like the light of the sun to a weak eye, - glorious indeed in itself, but not proportioned to such an instrument. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so. [ Pope ]
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. [ Jeremy Collier ]
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects. [ Pascal ]
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend. [ Saadi ]
When a woman's heart is touched, when it is moved by love, then the electric spark is communicated and the fire of inspiration kindled: but even then she desires no more than to suffer or to die for what she loves. [ Countess Hahn-Hahn ]
We readily excuse paralytics from labor; and shall we be angry with a hypochondriac for not being cheerful in company? Must we stigmatize such an unfortunate person as peevish, positive, and unfit for society? His disorder may no more suffer him to be merry, than the gout will suffer another to dance. The advising a melancholic to be cheerful is like bidding a coward to be courageous, or a dwarf be taller. [ Wollaston ]
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale. [ Colton ]