Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they,… — Thomas Hooker Copy Share Image
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
