Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.

I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

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.

Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

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.

I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.'

I have always been into fitness but never into running, in fact, I used to despise it. I'd look at people that ran and think they were crazy.

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.