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 | "Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one"s own
despised and unwanted feelings." | |
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Alice Duer Miller
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| "CONTEMPT, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too
formidable safely to be opposed." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we
hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get
familiar with it." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Familiarity breeds contempt." | |
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Aesop
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| "God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects
to receive it." | |
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| "I"ve seen a look in dogs" eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed
contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are
nuts." | |
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John Ernst Steinbeck
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| "Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites
of religion held in contempt." | |
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Niccoló Machiavelli
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| "This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for
contempt too high." | |
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Abraham Cowley
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| "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an
authority myself." | |
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Albert Einstein
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