If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“I often wonder, in a catfight, when one doesn't want to fight, if the other cat calls it a pussy.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those… — Anders Chydenius Copy Share Image
Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and after a… — George Downame Copy Share Image
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable,… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming,… — Naz?m Hikmet Copy Share Image
MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
