Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits, — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind. — Thomas Bastard Copy Share Image
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this… — Isaac Jogues Copy Share Image
Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism.… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Deceiving world, that with alluring toysHast made my life the subject of thy scorn,And scornest now to lend thy fading joys,T'outlength my… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em. — Frederic Reynolds 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
