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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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