Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime Crime is the last resort of political half wits.

Espresso is to Italy what champagne is to France.

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.