Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“ Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.” — Larry Hannant Copy Share Image
Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not. — Aesop Copy Share Image
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [ Thoughts on Various Subjects , 1727]” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an… — Henry Sambrooke Leigh Copy Share Image
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence." — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“It is the leader’s job to model and enforce the values and behaviors that make up the company culture. “Model” the behaviors… — Beth Ramsay Copy Share Image
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
“Well--there it was, and the fault was doubtless neither hers nor his, but that of the world they had grown up in,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my… — Bernie Marsden Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the… — Homer Copy Share Image
“But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
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