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— Horace"Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised."
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During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.
— George Orwell
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I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We're talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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