I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore… — Steve Huffman Copy Share Image
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to… — Horace Copy Share Image
Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
