A Quote by Francis Bacon

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.

Muriel Rukeyser

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

Mao Zedong

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

Charles Caleb Colton

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Frances Burney

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

William Hazlitt

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Benjamin Disraeli

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

Josh Billings

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

Saint John Chrysostom

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

Bob Dylan

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

Harriet Martineau

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.

Charles Caleb Colton

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

Benjamin Franklin

The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

Rob Nilsson

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.