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

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Life is an incurable disease.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

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

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.

Of all ills that one endures hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Life is an incurable Disease.

The present is an eternal now.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

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

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

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.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

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

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.