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You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself. -- Willie Geist
No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. -- John Keats
The miser robs himself. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The back-doore robs the house. -- George Herbert
Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures. -- Brian Rathbone
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. -- Charles A. Beard
Facing your fears robs them of their power. -- Mark Burnett
Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal. -- Neil Postman
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition. -- Jay Samit
Thinking of Germany in the night robs me of my sleep. -- Heinrich Heine
When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures -- Harvey Pekar
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. -- Daniel Webster
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. -- Yukio Mishima
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. -- Virginia Woolf
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. -- James Russell Lowell
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand. -- Seneca the Younger
If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist. -- Karl Marx
Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them. -- William Gurnall
We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. -- Pema Chodron
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. -- Leo Buscaglia
The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ. -- Jack Hyles
Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists. -- Marshall Sylver
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. -- Jean de la Bruyere
There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money. -- Andrew Carnegie
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love. -- Stefan Molyneux
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs. -- Theodore Sturgeon
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts. -- Miguel de Unamuno
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. -- Edmund Burke
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. -- Ambrose Bierce
Running away, avoiding life's battles or giving up robs you of the opportunity to grow and be stronger. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really. -- Chris Noth
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing. -- Douglas Adams
A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. -- Carl Jung
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. -- Carl Jung
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents. -- Edward Brooke
Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions. -- Harvey Mackay
He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed. -- William Shakespeare
I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises. -- Marc Warren
The rush to enjoy robs the joy from life and only denies the happiness and freedom of here and now. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership. -- John Manning
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. -- Tecumseh
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories. -- Mark Twain
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. -- A.J. Cronin
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love -- Clive Barker
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none. -- Denis Diderot
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Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. -- Peter Schiff
A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits. -- Lois Lenski
The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness. -- Alice Hegan Rice
[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products. -- Benjamin Tucker
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. -- George Bernard Shaw
The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever chocolate-saving technique. -- Mitch Hedberg
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. -- Uta Hagen
The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don't even realize it. -- Joe Rogan
Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind. -- Markus Zusak
Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. -- Mitt Romney
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood. -- Stephen King
The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. -- Mac Thornberry
Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes. -- Stephen L. Richards
In the process of being metabolized, sugar robs your body of valuable nutrients ... Sugar also inhibits your liver's production of enzymes needed in the detoxification process. -- Ann Louise Gittleman
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence. -- Ayn Rand
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers! -- W.S. Gilbert
If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again. -- Phil Angelides
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul. -- Ann Voskamp
The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living . . . -- Maria Popova
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. -- Virginia Woolf
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul. -- Ann Voskamp
Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death. -- Shinmon Aoki
Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return. -- Peter McWilliams
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. -- Emma Goldman
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it. -- Andrea Dworkin
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. -- Merle Shain
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer? -- James Hillman
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all. -- Carlos Castaneda
What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood. -- John Gay
To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer. -- Jewel
The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon. -- Vladimir Nabokov
It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read. -- Hannah More
A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil? -- Oliver Goldsmith
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 is of the joy in life. -- Eva N.
Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa. -- Rob Lowe
The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear. -- Debbie Ford
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. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs. -- Peter Dobereiner

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