He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.” — Gordon H. Clark Copy Share Image
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
“setting your mind on best forgotten issue is adding to ones contempt and sorrows cos there is no future to derive in… — ojo emmanuel david Copy Share Image
You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“The gods! long since they hold us in contempt, Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost! Why should we fawn and… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within… — Saadi Copy Share Image
“What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering, does become The opposite… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets.… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“- Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Forgive me if your contempt from on high always brings out the worst in me.” — Laura Lee Guhrke Copy Share Image
It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
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