Honesty

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  • Honesty: the most important thing in life. Unless you really know how to fake it, you'll never make it.
        Bernard Rosenberg   Best?
  • ... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ...
        D. A. F. Sade   Best?
  • Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
        Sir Robert Hutchinson   Best?
  • Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
        Cicero   Best?
  • It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
        Robert Graves   Best?
  • Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.
        Ogden Nash   Best?
  • How much fame, money, and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
        O.J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
        Aristotle Onassis   Best?
  • In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.
        Connie Chung   Best?
  • Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it.
        Brigid Brophy   Best?
  • The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.
        Blackfoot chief   Best?
  • What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
        Leo Tolstoy   Best?
  • A married man with a family will do anything for money.
        Charles De Talleyrand   Best?
  • Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
        Gottfried Reinhardt   Best?
  • I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
        John D. Rockefeller   Best?
  • There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further.
        Wernher von Braun   Best?
  • The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
        Henri De Regnier   Best?
  • Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny -
        Ogden Nash   Best?
  • A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
        G. Gordon Liddy   Best?
  • Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
        Dwight D. Eisenhower   Best?
  • When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
        J.P. Donleavy   Best?
  • France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
        Billy Wilder   Best?
  • Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Virtue has never been as respectable as money. (from Innocents Abroad)
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
        Nicholas Murray Butler   Best?
  • Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
        Albert Szent-Gyorgyi   Best?
  • The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money
        Alexis de Tocqueville   Best?
  • If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
        Samuel Butler   Best?
  • Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
        Albert Szent-Gyorgyi   Best?
  • Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
        P.J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
        Steve Martin   Best?
  • Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
        Lord Samuel   Best?
  • A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
        W. C. Fields   Best?

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