Honor

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  • Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Honor and shame from no condition rise.
        Alexander Pope   Best?
  • On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.
        Dick Solomon   Best?
  • Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
        Jimmy Durante   Best?
  • I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  • The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
        Anne Rice   Best?
  • Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
        Hugh Elliott   Best?
  • Energy is eternal delight.
        William Blake   Best?
  • Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
        Dante Alighieri   Best?
  • The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
        Charles Caleb Colton   Best?
  • Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Americans have different ways of saying things. They say `elevator', we say `lift'...they say `President', we say `stupid psychopathic git'....
        Alexi Sayle   Best?
  • Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Success is never final.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • Is yours an honest lament?...Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights.
        R. A. Salvatore   Best?
  • The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
        Thomas Carlyle   Best?
  • Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.
        Venezuelan Proverb   Best?
  • It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • She was a phantom of delight.
        William Wordsworth   Best?
  • The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
        Socrates   Best?
  • The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
        Ovid   Best?
  • Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. (TV listing for the movie The Wizard of Oz in the Marin Independent Journal.)
        Unknown   Best?
  • Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
        Ed Macauley   Best?
  • Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?

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