Contempt Quote by Thomas Browne Download Open image “Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.” — Thomas Browne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Enough Lows May Scorn Stations
My lows are not too low and my highs are not too high, I call it being content! — Theophilus Lukonde Jr Copy Share Image
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service. — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
“Contentment should not be confused with smugness… Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures.” — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences — William Penn Copy Share Image
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image