“ It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ”
- Francesco Petrarch- Copy
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“ Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. ”
- Citium Zeno- Copy
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“ For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. ”
- Isak Dinesen- Copy
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“ The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? ”
- Harriet Martineau- Copy
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“ To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly, it is to be humane. ”
- Jane Harrison- Copy
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“ Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
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“ The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ”
- Henry Clay- Copy
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“ One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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“ Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses. ”
- Flann O’Brien- Copy
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“ After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress? ”
- Eva Gabor- Copy
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“ I never did any TV before. But this was the most honorable and worthwhile show I could be involved with. ”
- Richard Price- Copy
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“ It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue. ”
- Mingjiao- Copy
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“ The principal purpose of politics is the evolution and maintenance of a securely established ruling class with a justified sense of its own honourable superiority. ”
- Peregrine Worsthorne- Copy
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“ Gaylord is a very honorable man. He only throws the spitter when he needs it. ”
- Gabe Paul- Copy
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“ If they refuse to take action with a view to an honourable settlement, then we shall declare a general strike for the whole of Liverpool. ”
- Tom Mann- Copy
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“ My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. ”
- Winfield Scott Hancock- Copy
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“ As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows. ”
- Abraham Clark- Copy
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