Honest Man Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Opinion, Honest

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• To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."

  William Shenstone

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.

  Robert Toombs

  Country, War, Fighting

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• I like honest men of all colors.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Color, Honest

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• It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Doctors, Humanity

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Character, Men

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• With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

  Honore de Balzac

  Grateful, Men, Secret

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• A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Knights, Might

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1844). “The Works of Robert Burns: With Dr. Currie's Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay on His Genius and Character”, p.134

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• Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christian, Character, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.

  Frank Abagnale

  Funny, Honesty, Dad

  "Catch Me If You Can". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

  W. C. Fields

  Uncles, Men, Giving

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• They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him on the subject of the Trinity. They say that God says to me, "Forgive your enemies." I say, "I do;" but he says, "I will damn mine." God should be consistent. If he wants me to forgive my enemies he should forgive his. I am asked to forgive enemies who can hurt me. God is only asked to forgive enemies who cannot hurt him. He certainly ought to be as generous as he asks us to be.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hurt, Men, Forgiving

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• They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Water, House

  Charles Dickens, Madeline House, Graham Storey (1974). “Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate editors: W.J. Carlton [and others]”

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• War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.

  Eric L. Haney

  Selfish, War, Men

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• The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Men

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• The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Men, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.613

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• Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Sight, Political

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

  Diogenes

  Men, Way, Honest

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• Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Destiny, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4260, Library of Alexandria

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• A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, People, Political

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

  Joseph Haydn

  Son, Men, Skills

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• An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Pads, Honest

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• I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Heart, Men, May

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