WORRY

Related Subjects: Agitation, Burden, Care, Patience, Responsibility, Suspense

1. There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday. . . . And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.—R. J. BURDETTE, The Golden Day
   

2. O fond anxiety of mortal men!
   How vain and inconclusive arguments
   Are those, which make thee beat thy wings below!—DANTE, Paradise
   

3. I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.—J. B. S. HALDANE
   

4. Worry is interest paid on trouble before it becomes due.—DEAN INGE
   

5. I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.—JOSEPH JEFFERSON
   

6. There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

7. Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.—GEORGE W. LYON
   

8. The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

9. Cudgel thy brains no more about it.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

10. Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee
    Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV