Common Quote by Barbara Mertz Download Open image “A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.” — Barbara Mertz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common Young Fondness Fondness Martyrdom Martyrdom Martyrdom Especially Variety Young Youth
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. — John Barth Copy Share Image
“Our little tribal circles, bound by social contracts and selfish mutual need. Everyone working in their own greedy self-interests and huddling together with their… — David Wong Copy Share Image
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything -… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image