Such is the nature of the human ego it resents its betters and gloats at its lessers.
Quotes about betters (9 Quotes)
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
Right now, we don't have any hot irons in the fire. Have we been talking to teams Yes. Do we want to make a move Only if it betters our hockey club. And we don't want to do it by subtraction, only addition.
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn.
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' called ''betters.'' Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society learn to admire rightly the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos He will set them above their betters.