Honorable famous quotes

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe
-- Bel Kaufman

#Senior #Prom #Honorable

Cartooning is an honorable thing
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Honorable

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Envelopes #Pushing #Honorable

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.
-- Confucius

#Way #Rich #Honorable

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.
-- Confucius

#Sincere #Honorable

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
-- David Gemmell

#People #Age #Honorable

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.
-- Delano Johnson

#Good Woman #Honor #Honorable

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell

#Interesting #Alive #Honorable

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side
-- Gina Gershon

#Sides #Sleazy #Honorable

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!
-- James Longstreet

#War #Fighting #Honorable

Compromise is an honorable word.
-- John Dingell

#Compromise #Honorable

And Brutus is an honorable man,
-- Julius Caesar

#Men #Brutus #Honorable

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.
-- Katherine Paterson

#Mistake #Path #Honorable

What is permissible is not always honorable.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Honorable

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Honorable #Persons

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
-- Mario Puzo

#Men #Honorable #Whole Life

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
-- Muriel Spark

#Weapons #Honorable #Ridicule

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]
-- Quintilian

#Men #Becoming #Honorable

If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.
-- Rob Bell

#Beautiful #Claims #Honorable

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#Example #Honorable

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#Parliament #Honorable #Persist

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
-- Thomas Mann

#Mediocrity #Mediocre #Honorable

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
-- Thomas More

#Honor #Would Be #Honorable

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
-- Wendell Willkie

#People #Wish #Honorable

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
-- William Bradford

#Overcoming #Action #Honorable

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.
-- William J. Clinton

#Democracy #Doe #Honorable

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
-- Zeno of Citium

#Evil #Honorable

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.
-- Ashin Wirathu

#Political #Honorable #Lama

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
-- Heath L'Estrange

#Character #Enough #Honorable

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
-- Agesilaus II

#Done #Honorable #Monument