Scorn Quotes - Page 10

• until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Creativity, Artist, Phases

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• Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
  [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

  George Herbert

  Men, Young, Old Man

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• A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

  Francois Rabelais

  Mind, Fortune, Certain

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.684, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A leader is only able to lead others because he disciplines himself. The person who does not know how to bow to discipline imposed from without, who does not know how to obey, will not make a good leader-nor will the one who has not learned to impose discipline within his own life. Those who scorn scripturally or legally constituted authority, or rebel against it, rarely qualify for high leadership positions.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Discipline, Leader, Rebel

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• They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

  Francis Bacon

  Old Time, Reverence

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• Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Stars, Distance

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• Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

  Gillian Flynn

  Beautiful, People, Done

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• True artists scorn nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, True Artists

  Albert Camus (1960). “Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien”

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• There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Ignorant, Suits, Purpose

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• How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.

  John Webster

  Husband, Spring, Law

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• Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Anger, Men

  Francis Bacon (1850). “Works”, p.306

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• Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

  William Ellery Channing

  Regret, Men, Suffering

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(407 p.)”, p.121

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• Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Mind, Matter

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.162

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• The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

  Joe Walsh

  Revenge, Hatred, Violence

  Song: The Confessor

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• The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.

  Robert Blair

  Angel, Return, Ghost

  Robert Blair (1804). “The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by Gray. Death, a poem, by bishop Porteus [&c.].”

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• Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

  Charles Mackay

  Sage, World, May

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”

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• "Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself.
  The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?

  William Bennett

  Mean, Heart, Honor

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• God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Dust, Devil, Ashes

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.48

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• The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

  Mark Levin

  Planning, Blame, Industry

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• President Bush, whose scorn for journalists is balanced by a soft spot in his heart for the conglomerates they work for, threatens to veto the Senate action. Keep in mind that when the public was asked to submit comments to the FCC about consolidation, only one percent approved it. The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.

  Bill Moyers

  Heart, House, Listening

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk about democracy all he wants, but it is not democracy to wilfully disdain and heap scorn on world opinion. We do not command moral leadership by starting pre-emptive wars.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, War, President

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed away from marijuana or not dealt dope to your friends when you were 18 you wouldn't be serving a life sentence in prison right now. You wouldn't be locked out of jobs, unable to even get work at McDonalds. No, instead we'd say, "What's wrong with us as a nation that we would condemn so many of our young men to a life of poverty, exclusion, and scorn simply because they made a few mistakes in their youth?".

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Mistake, Boys

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Always welcome your customer's scorn. This rule says read the complaint letters. Categorize them. Decide how you are going to wipe them out.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Wipe, Letters, Welcome

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake of that sunken ship, the last thing I sought was a "relationship" or, heaven forbid, marriage.

  Jim Goad

  Cancer, Divorce, Dark

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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