Aeschylus
Aeschylus

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Arthur Quiller-Couch
Arthur Quiller-Couch

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Dave Attell
Dave Attell

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

James Dyson
James Dyson

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

Jim Norton
Jim Norton

I never care if the audience groans.

Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry

I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning. I hear the same groan now, precisely, every morning, when I emerge from my own lair. It's more than an expression of physical weariness - it's an aching of the soul. Even the groans get passed down.

Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.