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Quotes About Comfort

I know my boyfriend loves to have something to hold onto. Theres a lot of men out there who do.
~ Sara Ramirez
The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.
~ J. C. Ryle
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.
~ George Hackenschmidt
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
~ Barbara Walters
I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
~ Bill Nighy
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
~ Henrik Ibsen
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
~ John Berger
The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.
~ Rosalind Russell
Let no man's deathbed be a futon.
~ Demetri Martin
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
~ Francis Beaumont
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
~ Bertrand Russell
O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return
~ Alphonsus Liguori
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
~ Anthony Trollope
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
~ Anthony Trollope
The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.
~ Bear Bryant
I'm looking for men who can give me security.
~ Elisabetta Canalis
Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
~ Francis Bacon
Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!
~ George Crabbe
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.
~ George Eliot
Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.
~ Teresa of Avila
you will never lack so much of the water of comfort that your thirst will be intolerable;
~ Teresa of Avila