A Quote by George Herbert

To be too busie gets contempt.

George Herbert

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Contempt Gets Too

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George Herbert
British - Poet
April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

John Lyly

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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

Abraham Cowley

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Margaret Mead

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

Neal A. Maxwell

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

John M. Gottman

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Jennifer Pahlka

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Dennis Potter

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

Daniel Defoe

My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.

Robert Southwell

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

H. L. Mencken

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Ambrose Bierce

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Ann Coulter

The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday Night Live - and that's why it gets a lot of heat, too. Obviously it gets criticism fairly, too. But a lot of it is because Lorne [Michaels] lets the audience decide and doesn't force them to laugh.