In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
When people direct insults at me, I can take it.
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.
. . . Wild Bill had his faults, grievous ones, perhaps. . . He would get drunk, gamble, and indulge in the general licentiousness characteristic of the border in the early days, yet even when full of the vile libel of the name of whiskey which was dealt over the bars at exorbitant prices, he was gentle as a child, unless aroused to anger by intended insults. . . . He was loyal in his friendship, generous to a fault, and invariably espoused the cause of the weaker against the stronger one in a quarrel.
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.
I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.
Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.
Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one. . . is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.
Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.
I usually do drive-by insults, and keep moving until I realize the next day how horrible I am.