One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner, — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help! — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes,… — David Robinson Copy Share Image
Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and… — Paul Broca Copy Share Image
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but… — Democritus Copy Share Image
I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others,… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
