“Days" Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men… — Herbert Newton Casson 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
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals'… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the… — Karan Mahajan 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
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
