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Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations -- Marcus Aurelius
By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?' 'You can call me whatever you like.' Vex nodded. 'Thank you, Gladys. -- Derek Landy
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us. -- Plautus
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. -- Edmund Burke
Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease. -- Edmund Waller
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen -- George R. R. Martin
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. -- Galileo Galilei
Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun. -- George Crabbe
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. -- Hermann Hesse
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other. -- John Wilkins
He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn. -- William Shakespeare
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe. -- Edmund Burke
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. -- Jane Austen
Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet. -- William Shakespeare
Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be? -- Henry David Thoreau
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. -- Marcus Aurelius
It is always our inabilities that vex us. -- Joseph Joubert
Better y'not vex y'self on what aint y'vexes. - Malstrom pg 269 -- Doug Dorst
It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it. -- Marcus Aurelius
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you. -- Julia Quinn
This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me. -- Julia Quinn
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment. -- Lucretius
Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex. -- Jonathan Swift
If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The cunning waste their pains;The wise men vex their brains;But the simpleton, who seeks no gains,With belly full, he wanders freeAs drifting boat upon the sea." -- Cao Xueqin
I know she hates me, yet cannot choose but love her: No matter, if but to vex her, I'll haunt her still; Though I get nothing else, I'll have my will. -- Thomas Middleton
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases. -- Richard Sharp

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