Honest Quotes

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Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last… — Joseph Addison
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping… — John Donne
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot.… — John Donne
All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and… — Jimmy Carter
I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast… — Jeffrey R. Holland
An honest man nearly always thinks justly. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What… — Anton Chekhov
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc. — Ambrose Bierce
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to… — Henry George
Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of… — Henry David Thoreau
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might… — George Eliot
Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?… — Ezra Taft Benson
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always… — James Bryant Conant
Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a… — Don DeLillo
I am looking for an honest man. — Diogenes
American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated… — Dave Barry
Necessity makes an honest man a knave. — Daniel Defoe
You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him. — Confucius
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for… — Christopher Columbus
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. — Bertrand Russell
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is… — Benjamin Cardozo
An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. — Ayn Rand
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they… — Ayn Rand
Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences,… — Mahatma Gandhi

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