Trample
To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.
Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.
To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.
To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.
The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.
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Trample Quotations
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Martin Luther
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Terry Pratchett
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Nadia Comaneci
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
George Mason
Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
Lajos Kossuth
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
Karen Black
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Aurelius Augustine
Trample Translations
trample in German is trampeln
trample in Spanish is pisotear
trample in Swedish is trampa, trampa ner
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