Insult Quotes - Page 24

• [A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.

  Vincent de Paul

  Fall, Humble, Rose

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.

  J. P. Guilford

  Thinking, Should Have, Practice

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• Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

  Anjem Choudary

  Punishment, Messages, Subjects

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• I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Talking, Guy

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• An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

  Don Rickles

  Fun, People, Titles

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• He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Affected

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

  Pope Francis

  Fun, Provoking

  "After Paris attacks, Pope speaks out against insulting religions" by Philip Pullella, www.reuters.com. January 15, 2015.

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• Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation, this coming-into-being of thinking not out of nothing (as it likes to imagine) but out of some unthinkable something. But the most self-abstractivist or self-reductivist kind of thinking cannot tolerate even the notion (much less the traumatic experience or confrontation) of an incurable pathos, a weakness or blind-spot, within consciousness. The very idea is an insult to the autonomy or self-determinability of ego/will/reason.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

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• Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, God Image

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1958). “Collected works”

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• Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Contraceptives, Womanhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

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• Don't insult God with safe living and small thinking.

  Craig Groeschel

  Thinking, Safe

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• "What's the latest dope on Wall Street?" "My son!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.

  Evita Peron

  People, Each Day, Faces

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• Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

  Susan Wiggs

  Ignorance, Men, Littles

  Susan Wiggs (2012). “At the King's Command”, p.168, Harlequin

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• To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

  Larry Merchant

  Glasses, Boxing, Chins

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• Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. To-night at least, I would be her guest-as I was her child; my mother would lodge me without money and without price.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mother, Children, Night

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.264, Penguin

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• You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Looks

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Betrayal, Prejudice, Quotations

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• It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.

  Steve Albini

  Band, Producers, Horrible

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• The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  People, Expectations, Leader

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• Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

  Mary Schmich

  Compliments You, Succeed, Remember

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, Honor, Thieves

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• Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Distance, Men, Order

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.306

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• There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

  Chief Seattle

  Spring, Men, White Man

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face by the basest of slaves (Jn. 18:22). He gives you an example of victory, yet do you refuse to undergo this at the hands of a man of like passions as yourself? You are ashamed of becoming an imitator of God (Eph. 5:1), how then will you reign with Him and share in His glory in the kingdom of heaven if you do not endure that man?

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Passion, Men

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