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x Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.   Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love Lazarus Long
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
x Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.   John Dryden      
x Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.   Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux      
x All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.   Andrew Carnegie      
x As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.   Joseph Conrad      
x Why should honor outlive honesty?   William Shakespeare Othello Othello
I am not valiant neither,
But ever puny whipster gets my sword:
But why should honour outlive honesty?
Let it go all.

Spoken by Othello in William Shakespeare's Othello, Act V, scene 2
x No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.   Publilius Syrus      
x When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.   Ben Jonson      
x Let my honor be without stain.     Motto    
x No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.   Calvin Coolidge      
x Act well your part; there all honor lies.   Alexander Pope      
x Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.   Charles Caleb Colton      
x The post of honor is a private station.   Joseph Addison      
x The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.   Ralph Waldo Emerson      
x The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.   Bernard de Mandeville      
x A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep?          
x Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.     Proverb    
x Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.   Cicero      
x I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.   Julius Caesar      
x Honor is simply the morality of superior men.   H. L. Mencken      
x Honor lies in honest toil.   Grover Cleveland      
x Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.   Norman Mailer      
x Better not be at all than not be noble.   Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson      
x There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.   Woodrow Wilson      
x Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.   Pliny the Elder      
x The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.   Abraham Lincoln      
x You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.   James Allen      
x Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.   Akhenaten      
x One may survive distress, but not disgrace.     Scottish Proverb    
x It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.   Alexis de Tocqueville      
x A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.     Bible    
x Death rather than disgrace.     Motto    
x Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.   Samuel Taylor Coleridge      
x For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.          
x He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.   Publilius Syrus      
x The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.   Francis Bacon      
x I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.   Pierre Corneille      
x A person dishonored is worst than dead.   Miguel de Cervantes      
x To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.   David Hare      
x Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.   Joseph Addison      
x The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.   Woodrow Wilson      
x It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.   Mark Twain      
x Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.   Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller      
x Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.   Arthur Schopenhauer      
x A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor.     Proverb    
x Honor is the reward of virtue.   Cicero      
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