If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful…

A man destined to hang can never drown

— Regina Spektor

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

— Joseph Addison

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while…

— Rory Bremner

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay,…

— Samuel Johnson

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

— Samuel Johnson

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree…

— Junot Diaz

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Never scorn a woman. They get violent.”

— Pepper Phillips

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn…

— Calvin Coolidge

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

— Walter Scott

Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts…

— Abby May Alcott

“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social…

— Michael Salter

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

— Jim Rohn

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

— Dan Quayle