Comfort Quotes

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don’t feel all that comfortable with people who are.

If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Blessed be God… who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to […]