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"Hey you! Look down. Your stupid is showing." »Ingrid Weir
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"One cannot review a bad book without showing off." »W. H. Auden
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"Eighty percent of success is showing up." »Woody Allen
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"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up." »Woody Allen
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"You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them" »Amy Tan
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"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." »Josh Billings
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"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid." »John Dewey
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"Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt." »Berthold Auerbach
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"The only cure for contempt is countercontempt." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"Familiarity breed contempt." »Aesop
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"A champion is strong, not just by showing it physically -but mentally, cause to achieve and become at the level he is, he needs a brain to analyze it, right?" »Zen diab
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""Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." »Mark Twain
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"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." »Mark Twain
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"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt" »Kahlil Gibran
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"Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path." »Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
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"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration." »Apuleius
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"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain." »Johnson
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"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt." »Henry Bolingbroke
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"In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest." »Martin Luther
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"Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people." »John D. Rockefeller
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"Obstinate silence implies either a mean opinion of ourselves, or a contempt for our company; and it is the more provoking, as others do not know to which of these causes to attribute it?whether humility or pride." »Hazlitt
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"There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless." »Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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"The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability." »J. William Galbraith
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"True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper." »Thomas Carlyle
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles, Antigone
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"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
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