Scorner Quotes & Sayings

Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore,
Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We're still a long way from knowing where our clicks will lead us. But it's clear that two of the hopes most dear to the Internet optimists - that the Web will create a more bountiful culture and that it will promote greater harmony and understanding - should be treated with skepticism. Cultural impoverishment and social fragmentation seem equally likely outcomes. — Nicholas Carr

Every mother's day needs a mother's night — The Lonely Island

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear. — Seneca The Elder

From somewhere in the distance, we heard a rolling crack of thunder.
"He's coming," moaned one of the Inferni. "Oh, Saints, he's coming."
"He'll kill us all," whispered Sergei.
"If we're lucky," replied Zoya. — Leigh Bardugo

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American. — Henry Miller

If you want to fly, you have to flap your own wings! — Claire Williams

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven? — Henry David Thoreau

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day. — Kurt Vonnegut

Think, think, think. — A.A. Milne

The scorner has brought, in reference to himself, all religion and moral feeling to an end. He has sat down - is utterly confirmed in impiety, and makes a mock at sin. His conscience is seared, and he is a believer in all unbelief. Now, blessed is the man who sits not down in his SEAT. Adam Clarke. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else. — John C. Maxwell

12. A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise. — Anonymous