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Quotes About Comfort

chairs were padded. The tables looked clean. There were napkin dispensers on the tables instead of rolls of cheap
~ Karin Slaughter
It's good you have a grave to visit." Ginny stared out the window with a pleasant smile on her face. There was no telling where her mind was. "When your father died, I remember standing at his grave and thinking, This is the place where I can leave my grief.
~ Karin Slaughter
I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.
~ Karl Petzke
You could guarantee a decent cup of coffee in Betty's, but it went beyond the decent coffee and the respectable girls (and women) who had been parcelled up some time in the 1930s and freshly unwrapped this morning. It was the way that everything was exactly right and fitting. And clean.
~ Kate Atkinson
Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, "Must get on with the tea.
~ Kate Atkinson
A woman should be a comfort and a relief, a restful pillow for the weary head.
~ Kate Atkinson
He brought her a cup of tea, the first and last resource of an English husband.
~ Kate Atkinson
We could buy a sewing machine and share it," Charlene said. "We could buy cloth and spools of thread and paper patterns and spend pleasant winter evenings dressmaking together. Perhaps by the soft light from beautiful glass oil lamps. We could sit in a pool of golden light from the beautiful glass oil lamps and our silver needles would glimmer and flash as we bowed our heads to the simple yet honest work." But
~ Kate Atkinson
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
~ Honore de Balzac
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
~ John Donne
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
~ Menander
Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.
~ Meryl Streep
I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.
~ Rita Rudner
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
~ Robert Southey
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men
~ Virgil
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
~ William Cowper
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
~ William Shakespeare
Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song
~ Billy Rose
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
~ William Shakespeare
A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.
~ Francis M. Lyman
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.