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.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

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 sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living.

Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living.

In hunting on cultivated grounds the huntsman must abstain from injuring the fruits of the season and must leave springs and streams undisturbed for to interfere with these is contrary to propriety and morality.

To be a successful farmer one must first know the nature of the soil.

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.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.