Honour Quotes

515 quotes by 397 authors

The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side… — Thomas Adams
A good death does honour to a whole life. — Petrarch
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by… — Robert Hooke
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families… — Benjamin Franklin
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It… — Rajneesh
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which… — Lyndon B. Johnson
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under… — John Milton
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey. — William Shakespeare
'I believe in oÂne God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity… — Edward Gibbon
I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his honour and… — William B. Travis
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none — David Brainerd
I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven; you must have… — Samuel Rutherford
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be… — Archibald Geikie
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a… — Charles Nicolle
I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears;… — George III
Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of… — William Henry Bragg
Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them. — Ziauddin Yousafzai
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness… — Charles Dickens
Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it. — Cadel Evans

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