Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist. The next best is a leader who is loved and praised. Next… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
