Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. Blaise Pascal French Philosopher More Blaise Pascal Quotes 6
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. Ann Landers American Advice columnist More Ann Landers Quotes 2
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville French Scientist More Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes 1
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. Cleopatra Egyptian Royalty More Cleopatra Quotes 1
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. Walt Whitman Poet Poet More Walt Whitman Quotes 1
Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil. William Saroyan American Writer More William Saroyan Quotes 0
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one . . . . William Cowper English Poet More William Cowper Quotes 0
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman Statesman More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes 0
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. Charles Caleb Colton English Writer More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes 0
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Charles Caleb Colton English Writer More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes 0
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. Abraham Cowley English Poet More Abraham Cowley Quotes 0
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. Quentin Crisp English Writer More Quentin Crisp Quotes 0
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. Aleister Crowley English Critic More Aleister Crowley Quotes 0
Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it. Alton Brown American Entertainer More Alton Brown Quotes 0
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. Fanny Burney English Novelist More Fanny Burney Quotes 0
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. Benjamin Disraeli British Statesman More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes 0
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. Martin H. Fischer More Martin H. Fischer Quotes 0
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. Khalil Gibran Poet More Khalil Gibran Quotes 0
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways. James Weldon Johnson American Poet More James Weldon Johnson Quotes 0
I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful. Norman Hartnell British Designer More Norman Hartnell Quotes 0
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. William Hazlitt English Critic More William Hazlitt Quotes 0
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us. Theodor Herzl Hungarian Journalist More Theodor Herzl Quotes 0
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. John Maynard Keynes English Economist More John Maynard Keynes Quotes 0
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. American Judge More Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes 0
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. Thomas Huxley English Scientist More Thomas Huxley Quotes 0