The weak resort of cowardice. [ Colton ]
Abuse is no argument against use. [ Proverb ]
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. [ Goodrich ]
To put up with abuse (swallow snakes). [ French ]
The bitter clamour of two eager tongues. [ William Shakespeare ]
To make a man valiant, abuse him lustily. [ Proverb ]
Riches abuse them who know not how to use them. [ Proverb ]
Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use.
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse. [ William Shakespeare ]
If you utter abuse, you must expect to receive it. [ Plaut ]
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The abuse of riches is worse than the want of them. [ Proverb ]
The abuse of a thing is no argument against its use. [ Law Max ]
A man's tyranny is measured only by his power to abuse. [ Donn Piatt ]
The abuse of a thing is no argument for its discontinuance. [ Law ]
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person? [ Plautus ]
Abuse does not hinder the use of a thing that is in itself lawful. [ Proverb ]
No argument can be drawn from the abuse of a thing against its use. [ Latin ]
It is the wit, the policy, of sin to hate those men whom we have abused. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
Use, do not abuse: neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. [ Voltaire ]
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it. [ Rousseau ]
Men who flatter women do not know them; men who abuse them know them still less. [ Mme. de Salm ]
A calumnious abuse, too often repeated, becomes so familiar to the ear as to lose its effect.
There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. [ Burke ]
Blessed be mirthfulness! It is one of the renovators of the world. Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Assertion, unsupported by fact, is nugatory; surmise and general abuse, in however elegant language, ought not to pass for proofs. [ Junius ]
Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man. [ Hooker ]
The casting away things profitable for the maintenance of man's life is an unthankful abuse of the fruits of God's good providence towards mankind. [ Hooker ]
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. [ Johnson ]
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow. [ Seneca ]
Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting. When, therefore, any one provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you. [ Epictetus ]
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature. [ Jane Porter ]
It has been shrewdly said, that when men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do. [ Colton ]
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case. [ Colton ]
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book, they buy with it the right to abuse the author. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]