Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit. — Elizabeth Inchbald Copy Share Image
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Know your worth. Know the difference between what you're getting and what you deserve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties... — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“She wrote that she was pretty sure more women and people of color could enroll “without denying to white men of merit… — Irin Carmon Copy Share Image
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for… — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families…… — Stephen Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
“Look. I know why you gave me that speech earlier today. I know you have an obligation to protect your vampires. But… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
