Despised

Famous quotes containing the word despised:

    Better to be despised and have a servant, than to be self-important and lack food.
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:9.

    RSV translation reads, “Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.”

    He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him.... Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
    Bible: Hebrew Isaiah 53:3-4.

    The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)