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
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You will never go wrong in concluding that a man has once loved deeply whatever he hates, and loves it yet; that… — Georg Groddeck Copy Share Image
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë 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
Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in… — Lord Kelvin 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
Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated! — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
