Honorable Quotes - Page 17

• The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Women, Good Man, Occupation

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them.

  Ann Coulter

  People, Needs, Narcissistic

  "Ann Coulter Chimes In on Obama's Response to Iran and Gov. Sanford". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2009.

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• As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Men, Village

  William Shakespeare, Juliet Dusinberre (2006). “As You Like It: Third Series”, p.269, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Revenge, Ambition, Men

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• Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Soldier, Loyal, Foundation

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• That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Marriage, Wine

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• I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, Memories, School

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• What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

  Sophocles

  Father, Son, Ornaments

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• I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of arent aware of manners and other ways of life and common decency.

  Derek Blasberg

  People, Moral, Common

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• I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.

  Robert Schwentke

  Real, Years, Two

  "Director Robert Schwentke Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

  Ice Cube

  Running, Believe, Long

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Land

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• What I like to believe, and what I do firmly hold to, is that in us all we do have the ability to remain honorable, no matter what has been done to us. No matter what horrors we've witnessed.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Done, Matter

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.

  George Saunders

  Taken, Hard Work, Able

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• Thanks to men
  Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Thankfulness

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “King John”, p.498

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• Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Community, India, Finals

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• My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Nations

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• With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.

  George Washington

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Heart

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.115

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• Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

  James C. Scott

  Careers, Agriculture, Population

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively.

  Noam Chomsky

  Community, Important, Matter

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

  Noam Chomsky

  Intellectual, Said, Term

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and mercy for those who needed help, etc. I wouldn't personally endorse everything they said, any more than I would for critics of power and its crimes today. But rather generally I think they played an honorable role - and suffered accordingly.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Thinking, Justice

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Cells, Space, Flying

  "Inner Space". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.

  John Bright

  Party, Political, Gentleman

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• I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Sorry, Sunday

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters”

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