Top 25 Sole Quotes of 60 - Page 3

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Henry Fielding

Literature, Bears, Insolence

"The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume".

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

Chuck Palahniuk

Worry, Disaster, Mausoleum

Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

Vladimir Nabokov

Obsolete, Reverse

Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.635, Vintage

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Second Amendment, Obsolete, Amendments

Man is nature's sole mistake.

W. S. Gilbert

Mistake, Men, Sole

'Princess Ida' (1884) act 2

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Oscar Wilde

Pleasure, Repentance, Console

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Struggle, Way, Sole

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Marcus Aurelius

Men, Sole, Deprived

It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

Gustav Mahler

Should, Sole, Endeavor

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

Edgar Allan Poe

Book, Luxury, Sole

Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.134, Hackett Publishing

Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

Charles Kettering

Old Things, Obsolescence, New Things

The insolence of office.

William Shakespeare

Office, Insolence

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

William Hazlitt

Ignorance, Insolence, Treats

William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.118

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Stendhal

Fashion, Obsolete, Hideous

Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

Ronald Reagan

Children, Sole, Chosen

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete.

Jim Stengel

Business, Grew Up, Obsolete

My love for you is the sole image / Of God a human is allowed.

Else Lasker-Schuler

My Love For You, Sole, God Image

Else Lasker-Schüler (2002). “Selected Poems”, Green Integer Books

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

Trifles, Distress, Console

"Pensées".

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

Vaclav Havel

Thrones, Modern, Sole

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

Pierre Corneille

Insulted Him, Insolence, Deserve

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

John Cleese

People, Serious, Solemn

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Railroads, Today, Obsolete

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

William Hazlitt

Spirit, Insolence, Vivacity

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1486, Delphi Classics