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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -Karl Barth

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -Abraham Lincoln 

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -R. Scott Richards 

It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -Henry David Thoreau 

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -Clarence Darrow 

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -Thomas Carlyle 

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -Ghandi 

.Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. -Don Galer 

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -Samuel Johnson 

A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -Anon.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan 

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done. -Theodore Roosevelt 

The time is always right to do what is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -Clare Boothe Luce

The only reward of virtue is virtue. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -Confucius

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -George Washington

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -Thomas Carlyle 

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -Aristotle 

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -Publilius Syrus 

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -Woodrow Wilson 

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -Booker T. Washington

Honor lies in honest toil. -Grover Cleveland 

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -Joseph Addison (1672-1719) 

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -Aristotle (384-322BC) 

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -Beaumont, Francis (c.1584-1616) 

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.' -Bierce, Ambrose (1842-?1914) 

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return. -Boileau, Nicolas (1636-1711) _Satires_ (1666) satire 10, l. 167 

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) 

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. -John Dryden,(1631-1700) 

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882) _Conduct of Life_ `Worship' 

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -Euripides (480-406BC) 

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. -Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) _Tom Jones_ (1749) bk. xi, ch. 4 

Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour. -Julius Hare, (1795-1855) 

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -Ben Jonson, (1673-1637)

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -Immanuel Kant(1724-1804)

A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -Shakespeare, 

.It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor . . . I fought to win. -Orson Scott Card from Ender's Game 

When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seasons


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