“A sneer is the weapon of the weak”
James Russell Lowell
“The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.”
Charles Kingsley
“My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.”
William S. Gilbert
“Who can refute a sneer?”
William Paley
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”
Ovid
“Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also. . .”
William McKinley
“Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
