The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.
They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse.
Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
It is a curse, being blessed with so much to offer.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?
Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.
A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that.
You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.
The Olympics must be my curse or something.
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.