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• Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

  Paracelsus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contempt, Judgement

• An appeal is when you ask one court to show it’s contempt for another court.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Appeal, Contempt, Another

• In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contempt, Order

• America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

  Toby Young

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Contempt, Thinks

• My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

  Chaka Khan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy, Contempt

• Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

  Robert Crumb

  Topics in America

  Tags in Adult, Contempt

• This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

  Abraham Cowley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contempt, Grant

• Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Mortification, Civilization, Contempt

• Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents, Contempt, Son

• Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.

  Jason Zebehazy

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Contempt, According, Fonder, Distance, Familiarity, Breed

• No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Contempt, Without, Best, Gentle, Got, Out, Man, Complete

• Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Contempt, Poetry And Poets, Heart, Language

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  Xenophon

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Contempt, Preach, Will

• Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Despised, Defense, Contempt, Against, Own, Feelings, Weak, Weapon

• To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

  Mason Cooley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contempt, Dignity, Forget, Forgive

• You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

  Lord Melbourne

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Contempt, Ridicule, Manifest, Understand

• The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

  Lester Bangs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contempt, Entertainment, Performer, Ultimate

• In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it’s nothing else but color.

  Toni Morrison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contempt, Becoming

• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contempt, Admiration, Edge, Familiarity

• Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contempt, Scorn, Kissing, Teach