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Letter "R" » robs
«No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Passion
| Keywords:
effectually, reasoning, robs
«Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.»
«Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.»
«He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.»
«It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
robs
«A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
depend, depend on, Paul, Paul A, Paul I, pay, peter, peter out, robs, support
«No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feathered grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest»
«Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
belongings, delicacies, delicacy, family circle, narratives, obscene, robs
«He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.»
«Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name robs me of t»
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