"We often despise what is most useful to…" — Aesop

More Despise Quotes

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• Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
• A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
• For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the… — Annie Besant
• Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is… — John O. Brennan
• Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be… — Alton Brown
• Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size… — Julie Burchill
• Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic… — Julie Burchill
• Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky
• I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely… — Howard Stern
• If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of… — William Cowper
• Where one despises, one cannot wage war. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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