Quotes About Ungrateful Man

#1. Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

Saadi

#2. Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#3. One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering.

Publilius Syrus

#4. One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.

Publilius Syrus

#5. A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

Seneca The Younger

#6. Josef Stalin once said that 'Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.' Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the callous rocks! A grateful dog is a being much more developed than an ungrateful man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

Seneca The Younger

#8. It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#9. Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Jonathan Swift

#11. Earlier, I'd held her papa in one arm and her mama in the other. Each soul was so soft.

Markus Zusak

#12. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. But that is not all, that is not his worst defect; his worst defect is his perpetual moral obliquity...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. So many other planets & stars
could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?

David Self

#14. Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred De Vigny

#15. The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#17. In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

Adrienne Rich

#18. It winna dee ye ony good, it disna ring. The salt fae the sea ruins the wiring, fast as I fix it. Besides,' said the man, as he came up to join us, 'I'm nae in the hoose tae be hearin ye, am I?

Susanna Kearsley

#19. No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him ... As for the virtuous poor ... they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Great art picks up where nature ends.

Marc Chagall

#21. If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

Tony Robbins

#22. no man, if he be ungrateful, will be unhappy in the future. I allow him no day of grace; he is unhappy forthwith.

Seneca.

#23. Ungrateful little twit." The egg-man scowls at me. "Looking a gift spider in the fangs. See if you're invited to tea again.

A.G. Howard

#24. Ronaldo could play for Millwall, QPR, Doncaster Rovers or anyone and he'd score a hat-trick. I'm not sure Messi could do it. Ronaldo's got two feet, he's quick, he's good in the air and he's brave, though Messi's brave too of course. I just think Messi is a Barcelona player.

Alex Ferguson

#25. Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

David Deutsch

#26. Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

John Milton

#28. Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light.

Jose Marti

#29. Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.

Wilder Penfield

#30. I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?

Augustine Of Hippo

#32. The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

Man Ray

#33. Cat piss and porcupines!

Kate Hattemer

#34. Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

Saint Basil

#35. Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

Mooji

#36. There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

Cornel West