An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication. Carl William Brown



60,000 QUOTES SPIDER
 


QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON ABUSE

 

 

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

 

James Baldwin (1924-1987, American author)

 

It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940, American writer)

Author's website: www.fitzgeraldsociety.org

 

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

 

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)

 

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

 

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)

 

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