#despise

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#despise #half #i #life #making

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it. ↗

— Alton Brown

#because #communicating #despise #done #hate

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#found #laboratory #lots #never #practice

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. ↗

— Allan Massie

#civilised #despise #do you know #folk #know

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. ↗

— Brian May

#becoming #chance #despise #getting #head

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#despise #infirmities #most #our #savage

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#despised #enough #enough people #exactly #frost

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#himself #nonetheless #respects #who #whoever

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#despised #eyes #faithful #i #i am