A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.
When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good. " This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.
The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.
The miser robs himself.
The back-doore robs the house.
A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.
Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.
In the process of being metabolized, sugar robs your body of valuable nutrients. . . Sugar also inhibits your liver's production of enzymes needed in the detoxification process.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Patriotism. . . is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.
The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever chocolate-saving technique.
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.