To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?
|
You are my true and honorable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
|
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
|
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
|
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
|
The fact they've been recovered and been presented in an honorable way would have given him a lot of peace.
|
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
|
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
|
It is an honorable calling that you have chosen. Some of you will soon be defending poor, helpless insurance companies who are constantly being sued by greedy, vicious widows and orphans trying to collect on their policies. Others will work tirelessly to protect frightened, beleaguered oil companies from being attacked by depraved consumer groups.
|
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name
|
Luke 6:45:
Good people bring good things out of the good stored up in their heart, and evil people bring evil things out of the evil stored up in their heart. For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
(NIV)
The upright (honorable, intrinsically good) man out of the good treasure [stored] in his heart produces what is upright (honorable and intrinsically good), and the evil man out of the evil storehouse brings forth that which is depraved (wicked and intrinsically evil); for out of the abundance (overflow) of the heart his mouth speaks.
(AMP)
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
(KJV)
|
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is...
|
...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet.
|
Hunting...the least honorable form of war on the weak.
|
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage
|
Let a prince therefore act to seize and to maintain the state; his methods will always be judged honorable and will be praised by all; for ordinary people are always deceived by appearances and by the outcome of a thing; and in the world there is nothing but ordinary people....
|
It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.
|
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
|
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
|
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
|
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.
|
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
|
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
|
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
|
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
|
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
|
It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it
|
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
|
Matthew 25:21:
'His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!''
(NIV)
His master said to him, Well done, you upright (honorable, admirable) and faithful servant! You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little; I will put you in charge of much. Enter into and share the joy (the delight, the blessedness) which your master enjoys.
(AMP)
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
(KJV)
|
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
|