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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.


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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be cured by baldness.
UNKNOWN It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Establishing this step-by-step process by which hair regrows will be useful for designing potential ...
CATHERINE THOMPSON Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY As observers, it would be foolish not to see challenges.
BRIAN PARTRIDGE Each tear longs to kiss sorrow
MUNIA KHAN This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
PAULINE KAEL It is true my friend, that you are paying the tax as well as losing your hair, but try to imagine a ...
DR HITESH C SHETH The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and be...
MADELINE MILLER Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.
DEAN KOONTZ So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worl...
THOMAS HOOKER Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losi...
CONFUCIUS Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of los...
CONFUCIUS Learn as though you would never be able to master it; Hold it as though you would be in fear of losi...
CONFUCIUS If a company is taken by surprise it could cost hundreds of millions, though if they have time to pr...
JAKOB EDBERG It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep...
SAINT IGNATIUS Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and...
EDWARD HIRSCH This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
BIBLE Oh Sinner! Vain is your attempt to hide your sins, for sins will shine in your life as bald pate shi...
DR HITESH C SHETH If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in...
SAMUEL BUTLER If Sally were here right now, she would be the calm-headed one. She could talk you through your sorr...
HOLLY TACHOVSKY The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
N...
ANNE MCCAFFREY Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wi...
CHANAKYA For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
BIBLE When I then turned toward the scriptures, they appeared to me to be quite unworthy to be compared wi...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO While sentiment is so strong, it would be foolish to fight the trend in prices.
ALAN WILLIAMSON No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Son of a Witch,
GREGORY MAGUIRE As far as DNA testing, we're just at the beginning of that universe. Pretty soon, though, we'll know...
ALAN MILSTEIN Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given; Whose lenient sorrow fi...
UNKNOWN It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less inter...
SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less intere...
SUSAN SONTAG 'T is better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perked up...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Her Dream Prince, Gee Gee, was, then, and of course still might be, though I'd always thought of a D...
LESLIE FORD 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON If we can’t feel into the heart of grief, we can’t truly move on to experience hope and joy. We ...
SHARON WEIL Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not e...
PETER S. BEAGLE Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.
PAUL ZINDEL [As for the] blur ... I can't allow one of my films to go out that way; it would be foolish. And giv...
ATOM EGOYAN When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow i...
JANE AUSTEN The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beaut...
CHANAKYA I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
WALTER SCOTT I swear 'tis better to be lowly born,And range with humble livers in content,Than to be perked up in...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
KATE MORTON There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
FELIX DENNIS Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out...
JOHNNY VEGAS It would be a very foolish person who made any kind of judgement from how he answered tabloid questi...
DAVID ARNOLD To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give your sorrow words. The grief that does not speak builds up softly in the heart, and bids it bre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
CHARLES DICKENS Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
GEORGE ELIOT Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
WILLIAM BLAKE The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could hav...
MADELINE MILLER There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might a...
VARRIC TETHRAS As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeche...
DEMOSTHENES As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches ...
DEMOSTHENES As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeche...
DEMOSTHENES No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. LEWIS I feel nothing but grief, sorrow and sadness for Sid (VIcious). l've lost my friend, I couldn't have...
JOHNNY ROTTEN I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a stat...
C.S. LEWIS That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disag...
VERA BRITTAIN It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and kno...
JACQUELINE CAREY . . . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or how...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.

It is a tru...
CHARLES DICKENS 'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a gl...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Often we wonder in our grief what is gained by our belief? Although night, and morning we pray, stil...
EDGAR A. GUEST You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though som...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Wanting has to go. Wanting to be free from something that is not there is what you call "sorrow.” ...
U.G. KRISHNAMURTI Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory on...
ROBERT HARRIS Forbidden fruit is always very intriguing...though never as tasty as one imagined it would be.
CLAUDY CONN He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all gri...
CHANAKYA Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
LES BROWN Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
PHILLIP BROOKS Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where...
WALTER WANGERIN JR. Though sorrow may impede my heart,
It is of great love to have known you.
C. ELIZABETH One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish ...
CRISS JAMI The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.
BIBLE Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
BIBLE There was no right or wrong during war. The setting sun made me realize that the ones who would live...
SHAYNE COLACO I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
JEANETTE WINTERSON My point here is not that the Iraq War was a bad idea in the first place (though it certainly was). ...
ROSA BROOKS For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.
ANONYMOUS It would be treated as though it were a new business.
BRIAN MCMAHON A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Whic...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and d...
DEBBIE FORD ...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one wou...
F.A. HAYEK What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth...
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of natu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perni...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat.,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not s...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Vol...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adver...
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