Honest Man Quotes - Page 4

• If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

  Sonny Bono

  Men, Criminals, Bob

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• No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

  Thomas Otway

  Art, Men, Boys

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• All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

  Robert Burns

  Fear, Men, World

  Robert Burns, William Gunnyon (1867). “The complete works of Robert Burns, including his correspondence, etc”, p.307

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• An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.

  J. Golden Kimball

  Men, Debt, Honest

  J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.273, Latter-day Publishing

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• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Mind

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• Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

  Federica Montseny

  Honesty, Spring, Heart

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• There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Two, Rogues

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.115

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• An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

  Rembrandt

  Men, Honor, Earning

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• The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

  Charles Peguy

  Honesty, Men, Infidelity

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, (p. 51), 1943.

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• The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

  Ximenes Doudan

  Integrity, Humility, Men

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• A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Men, Principles, Fool

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• The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

  Pope Gregory I

  Men, Voting, Honest

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  William Hazlitt

  Silly, Men, Two

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• The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Liars, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• Women love an honest man.

  Rita Ora

  Men, Honest

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  Men, Want, Honest

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• The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

  William Henry O'Connell

  Wall, Men, Honest

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• A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Men, Thieves, Debt

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• A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

  Robert Burns

  Faith, Honesty, Men

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1848). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.542

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• 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

  Truth, Honesty, Women

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

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• 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 current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Honesty, Mean, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  Daniel Defoe

  Honesty, Men, Literature

  'The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe' (1720) ch. 2

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• 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 this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Honesty, Men, Gains

  "The Paradoxes of Legal Science". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1928.

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• An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Men, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.314, Hamilton Books

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• To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

  Plautus

  Men, Honor, Honest

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