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.”

“Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,—none of your sunshine!—but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,—which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)