I went to BrainyQuotes on the net to cull the best quotes on comfort. I did use a filter, anytime anyone used the phrase “comfort zone” I immediately rejected the quote. Probably unfair, but to me, it just sets my teeth on edge. Interestingly, using that filter allowed the following gems to stand out.
1. Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. –John F. Kennedy
2. The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. –Confucius
3. Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. –Hippocrates
4. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. –C. S. Lewis
5. The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. –Khalil Gibran
6. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. –Lao Tzu
7. The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. –Aesop
8. Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. –Finley Peter Dunne
9. You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. –Princess Diana
10. Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. –Marshall McLuhan
