Without Merit Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

• Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison
• Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. — Nicolas Chamfort
• I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest… — Hendrik Tennekes
• The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement to and fro,… — Ajahn Thate
• Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze. — Samuel Johnson
• Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented… — Stephen Reinhardt
• The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for… — Brian Koppelman
• Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God. — Thomas a Kempis
• Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a… — Alan Greenspan
• Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare
• As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone… — Ambrose Bierce
• Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without… — R A Salvatore
• It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit. — Denis Fonvizin
• Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit. — P.J. O'Rourke
• Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. — P.J. O'Rourke

Who Wrote These Without Merit Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 Without Merit Quotes as follows:

• 2 Without Merit Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Joseph Addison
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Hendrik Tennekes
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Ajahn Thate
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Stephen Reinhardt
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Brian Koppelman
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Thomas a Kempis
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Alan Greenspan
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Without Merit Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Without Merit Quote by R A Salvatore
• 1 Without Merit Quote by Denis Fonvizin