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"Only cowards insult dying majesty." -- Aesop (620-560 BC), Greek fabulist More about the author |
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"A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt." -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British writer, critic More about the author |
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"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means." -- Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938), American criminal lawyer More about the author |
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"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me." -- Frederick Douglass (1817-95), African-American liberated slave, civil rights leader, writer, author, "The Heroic Slave," "John Brown" More about the author |
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"I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable." (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards) -- Lizzy Gardiner, Australian clothes designer More about the author |
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"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer, scientist, master of poetry, drama and novel More about the author |
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"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves." -- Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-71), French philosopher, encyclopedias More about the author |
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"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble." -- Sinclair Lewis More about the author |
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"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved." -- J. Russel Lynes (1910-91), US editor, critic, author More about the author |
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"Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them." -- Japanese Proverb More about the author |
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