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;void(0)) HONESTY & HONOR . . . HONESTY see: "CANDOR" see: "DISHONESTY" see: "INTEGRITY" see: "SINCERITY" see: "TRUTH" see: "CHARACTER" for other related links He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood. --Augustine, St. of Hippo (354430) Christian theologian and bishop of Hippo in Roman Africa [396430]. Attributed in Charles Varle _Moral Encyclopaedia, Or, Varlι's Self-Instructor_ [1831]. Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence. --Hosea Ballou (17711852) American theologian. Quoted in H. D. M. Spence, Joseph Exell, & Charles Neil (eds.) _Thirty Thousand Thoughts_, p. 10 [1889]. He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. --George Berkeley (16851753) Anglo-Irish philosopher. _Maxims Concerning Patriotism_ [1750] What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable. --Christian Nestell Bovee (18201904) American writer. _Intuitions and Summaries of Thought_, vol. 1, p. 117 [2 vols. 1862] He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol ..." [3 April 1777]. The most important thing in acting is honesty: if you can fake that, you've got it made. --George Burns [Nathan Birnbaum] (18961996) American comedian. Quoted in "Playboy" [March 1984]. From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God. --Robert Burns (17591796) Scottish poet and songwriter. "The Cotter's Saturday Night", st. 19 [1786] But of all plagues, good Heaven, they wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend! --George Canning (17701827) British statesman; prime minister [1827]. "New Morality" in _Anti-Jacobin_ [9 July 1798]. (wikiquote) An honest man's word is as good as his bond. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 2, bk. 3, ch. 34 [1615] Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother-knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man, than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled, nor bribed. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CXL [1826 ed.] It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. --Noλl Coward (18991973) English playwright, actor, and composer. _Blithe Spirit_ [1941] A few honest men are better than numbers. --Oliver Cromwell (15991658) English soldier and statesman; Lord Protector from 1653. Letter to Sir W. Spring [September 1643]. To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. --E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (18941962) American poet. _A Miscellany_ [1958] Gary Dexter notes, truthfully, that the splenetic is a truer barometer of thought than the gushy or the kind. "What is negative is, if nothing else, generally sincere," he writes. "Good reports of fellow writers can easily be flattery or log-rolling: just think of the ways book- reviewers operate. It is only in the negative and the scabrous that we can be sure of a writer's true feelings." --Quoted in "A Nasty Way With Words" by Alexander Theroux, reviewing _Poisoned Pens_ ed. by Gary Dexter. In _The Wall Street Journal_ [20 November 2009]. To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _Master Humphrey's Clock_ [1840] I pretind ivry man is honest, and I believe none iv them ar-re. In that way I keep me friends an' save me money. --Finley Peter Dunne (18671936) American journalist and humorist. "The Christmas Spirit" in _American Magazine_ [December 1906]. I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. --Leo [Ernest] Durocher (19051991) American professional baseball player and manager who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1994. _Nice Guys Finish Last_, bk. I [1975] Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. --Jonathan Edwards (17031758) American philosopher and preacher. Quoted in Sereno Edwards Dwight _The Life and Works of Jonathan Edwards_, 10 vols. [1830]. You Can't Cheat an Honest Man. --W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (18801946) American vaudeville star and film actor. A favorite saying and title of one of his films, quoted in Robert Lewis Taylor _W.C. Fields, His Follies and Fortunes [1949]. Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) American novelist. _The Great Gatsby_, ch. 3 [1925] God works wonders now and then; Behold! a Lawyer, an honest Man. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [December 1733] A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again. --Ernest Hemingway (18891961) American novelist. Introduction to _Men at War_ [1942]. When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed. --George Horne (17301792) English divine. _Commentary on the Book of Psalms_ [1833] I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. --attributed to Sam Houston (17931863) President of the Republic of Texas. An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. Letter to Peter Carr [19 August 1785]. It has always been the best policy to speak the truth unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. --Jerome K Jerome (18591927) English novelist and playwright. In "The Idler" [February 1892]. - Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ (English twice-weekly journal 1750-1752), #189 If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Entry of 14 July 1773 in James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. & see: The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _The Conduct of Life_ [1860] "Worship" - Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; Steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man. --old Arab proverb, quoted in Louis L'Amour's short story "Time of Terror" in _Off the Mangrove Coast_ [2000]. He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice, and never ceases nibbling. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. _Aphorisms on Man_ [2nd ed., 1789] He who walks straight rarely falls. --Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) Florentine painter, sculptor, musician, and scientist. _The Notebooks_ [1508-1518] ^ Detlev von Liliencron (18441909) German lyric poet and novelist. Liliencron was often in dire financial straits. One of his creditors stopped him in the street and demanded payment. 'Sorry, but I have no money, said Liliencron. 'Please be patient.' 'But that's what you said four weeks ago.' 'Well,' said Liliencron triumphantly, haven't I kept my word?' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ honesty is a good thing but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. --Don Marquis (18781937) American poet and journalist. _archys life of mehitabel_ [1933] The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. --attributed to Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (18951977) American film comedian. All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and good-nature. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (15331592) French moralist and essayist. _Essais_ (Essays), ch. 24 "Of Pedantry" [1580] - kap posts to USENET about honesty: When we moved out to Las Vegas in 1989 we drove out here with one U-Haul truck and two cars. Normally we would stop at nightfall but one evening we decided to go a little further. We had a plan if the back car got a flat tire or whatever - they would flash their headlights and then the middle car would, in turn, flash their headlights at the truck and everybody would stop. I was in the truck, my son followed, and, bringing up the rear, was my daughter. When her car broke she flashed her headlights and, naturally, no one was looking. Twenty miles later my son pulled up next to us, waving frantically. We stopped there while he went back to look for her. Fortunately he found her because losing our daughter would have ruined the whole trip and we would have had to move back to New York. So there we were in the middle of Tennessee at night with nowhere to stay and a broken car. We finally found a motel but the next morning the car was still broken and there were no gas stations nearby. Finally, we found a house with a sign outside, "Cars fixed" or something to that effect. We knew the fellow would take us to the cleaners (if he didn't kill us and roast us first) but having no other option, we took a chance. Turns out the gas filter was busted and after working on the car for over an hour he asks, "Is $12 okay?" First time in my life I wanted to kiss a Tennessee woodsman. - Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. --Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn (17921870) French-Swiss lyric poet. Quoted in A.N. Coleman _Proverbial Wisdom: Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical Sentences_ p. 100 [3rd ed. 1903]. When riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises while the other falls. --Plato (427?347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. _The Republic_ [c. 370 B.C.] - There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. Letter to Henry Cromwell [28 October 1710]. An honest man's the noblest work of God. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. "An Essay on Man", Epistle 4, l. 248 [1734] - People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked. And if one gains the immediate purpose of the lie the price one pays is the destruction of that which the gain was intended to serve. The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on. --Ayn Rand (19051982) Russian-born American writer. _Atlas Shrugged_ [1957] It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price. --Samuel Richardson (16891761) English novelist. _A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments..._ [1755] If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. --Cardinal de Richelieu (15851642) French Cardinal, Duke, and politician. Attributed in Ιdouard Fournier _L'Esprit dans l'Histoire: Recherches et Curiositιs sur les Mots Historiques_ [1857]. I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it. --Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (18791935) American humorist and actor. Attributed in Laurence J. Peter _Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time_ [1977]. - Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest we have no right to keep him in public life, it matters not how brilliant his capacity, it hardly matters how great his power of doing good service on certain lines may be. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. _The Strenuous Life_ [1900] The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty, the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. "The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics" _Outlook_ [12 May 1900] - - Honesty is the best policy. --Edwin Sandys (15611629) English statesman. _Europae Speculum_ [1605] & note: Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. --Richard Whately (17871863) English philosopher and theologian. _Apophthegms_ [1854] - - This above all, to thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_, I, iii [1601] No legacy is so rich as honesty. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _All's Well That Ends Well_, III, v [16021604] - The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. --Sir Philip Sidney (15541586) English courtier, statesman, soldier, and poet. Quoted in Jane Porter (ed.) _Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney_ [1807]. Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others. --Charles R. Swindoll (b. 1934) American evanegelical Christian pastor. Quoted in Martin H. Manser _The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations_ [2001 ed.]. - No professional liberal is intellectually honest. That's a real indictment but true as the Ten Commandments. Professional liberals aren't familiar with the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. --Harry S. Truman (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. In Margaret Truman _Harry S. Truman_, p. 8 [1973]. You've got to be able to count on a man's word, and if you can't, forget it. ... I've had experience with the other kind as well, and that's the worst thing there is. A liar in public life is a lot more dangerous than a full, paid up Communist, and I don't care who he is. --Harry S. Truman (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. Quoted in Merle Miller _Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman_ [1974]. - - [Referring to a tax assessor:] Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _A Mysterious Visit_ [1870 short story] I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Life on the Mississippi_, ch. 6 [1883] If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Mark Twain's Notebook_ [1935] - Every man has his price. --Robert Walpole (16761745) English Whig statesman. Speech [1734], stating that it was an "old maxim." I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable title, the character of an Honest Man. --George Washington (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. Letter to Alexander Hamilton [28 August 1788]. You may choose your word like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art; But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18501919) American author and poet. _New Thought Pastels_ [1906] A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. "Intentions" [1891] ----- candor [KAN-der], noun: 1. honesty in giving one's view or opinion; frankness and sincerity. 2. fairness; impartiality. dinkum (noun) ['ding-kκm] (Australian) Genuine, honest person or thing. Fair dinkum is "the real stuff, the truth." mensch (noun) ['mench], Yiddish A caring, decent and honorable person who can be trusted and who always tries to do the right thing. probity (noun) ['pro-bκ-ti] Honesty, integrity, moral perfection.  . . see: "FAME" see: "GLORY" see: "GREATNESS" see: "REPUTATION" see: "CHARACTER" for other related links The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. In "The Guardian" [14 September 1713]. There are circumstances which have to do with simple human honor. No matter the risk. To resist and not surrender. --Antonin Artaud (18961948) French playwright, actor, and director. Letter to Andrι Breton [28 February 1947] Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least injury without damage; it is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by the least flaw. --Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (16271704) French bishop and orator. Quoted in Phineas Garrett, Nathaniel Richardson & Charles Shoemaker _100 Choice Selections In Poetry And Prose_ [1890]. - Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. --Lois McMaster Bujold (b. 1949) American science fiction author. _A Civil Campaign_ [1999] Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. --Lois McMaster Bujold (b. 1949) American science fiction author. _A Civil Campaign_ [1999] - - Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never in nothing, great or small, large or petty never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. Speech at Harrow School [29 October 1941]. The only guide to a man is his conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and the sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honour. --Part of Winston Churchill's eulogy for Neville Chamberlain (18691940). In "Their Finest Hour" [1949], the 2nd book of _The Second World War_ [6 vols., 19481951]. - Ability without honor is useless. --attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother-knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man, than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled, nor bribed. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CXL [1826 ed.] To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. --Confucius (551479 B.C.) K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher. _Analects_, c. 500 B.C. [Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx):] Remember you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did. --"Duck Soup" [1933 film] Screenplay by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _The Conduct of Life_ [1860], "Worship" - In November 1940, Cornell was cruising through a second year at the top of college football, undefeated in 18 straight games. When the Big Red went to New Hampshire to play hapless Dartmouth, it was hardly expected to be a contest. But the game, played in snow flurries on a slushy field, proved to be a shocker. Going into the last minute of the game, Dartmouth was up, 3-0. Cornell finally put together a drive to the goal line and on the final play of the game scored the winning touchdown. There was just one problem: Referee Red Friesell had lost track of how many snaps Cornell had taken inside the 10-yard line. The touchdown was scored on a fifth down. Dartmouth protested, but the game was over. Cornell could have adopted the modern moral standard that anything the ref allows is allowed. Instead, when the game films showed conclusively that Cornell had won on an extra, illegal snap, the players, coach, athletic director and university president agreed to forfeit the game and did so graciously. Coach Carl Snavely sent a telegram to Hanover, N.H., saying that Cornell 'without reservation concede[s] the victory to Dartmouth with hearty congratulations to you and a gallant Dartmouth team.' Dartmouth wired back that it accepted the victory and saluted its 'honorable and honored opponent.' As Arthur Daley wrote in the New York Times that week: 'Cornell had the sportsmanship to yield a success it felt it had not rightfully earned.' --Eric Felten "Playing Fair, Even When Umpires Are Blind" _The Wall Street Journal_ [27 November 2009] - A man of honor should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. --Baltasar Graciαn (16011658) Spanish Jesuit philosopher. _The Art of Worldly Wisdom_ [1647] Weep not for little Leonie Abducted by a French Marquis! Though loss of honor was a wrench, Just think how it's improved her French. --Harry Graham (18741936) British writer and journalist. "Compensation" in _Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes_ [1899] I want to go out with my head erect, I want to deserve all men's respect; But here in this struggle for fame and pelf, I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to think as I come and go That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show. --Edgar Guest (18811959) American poet. "Myself" No one can disgrace us but ourselves. --Josiah Gilbert Holland (18191881) American novelist, poet, and editor of "Scribners Magazine." Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 110 [1886]. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. _Strength to Love_, ch. 2 "On Being a Good Neighbor" [1963] Perfect valor is doing without witnesses what one would be capable of doing in front of everybody. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims [1678], Maxim 216 [A note left in the Maryland home of Elizabeth Blair Lee during the Civil War:] A confederate officer, for himself & all his comrades, regrets exceedingly that damage & pilfering was committed in this house, before it was known that it was within our lines, or that private property was imperilled Especially we regret that ladies property has been disturbed, but restitution has been made, & punishment meted out as far as possible. --Elizabeth Blair Lee (18181906) American woman who lived through the American Civil War. In a letter to her husband [16 July 1864] in Virginia Jeans Laas _Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee_ [1991]. - The *probability* that we may fall in the struggle *ought not* deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it *shall not* deter me. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. "The Sub-Treasury" speech in the House of Representatives at Springfield, Illinois [26 December 1839]. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands *right*. Stand will him while he is right and *part* with him when he goes wrong. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Peoria, Illinois [16 October 1854]. - He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. _A Preface to Morals_ [1929] I could not love thee, Dear, so much. Loved I not honor more. --Richard Lovelace (16181657) English poet. "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" l. 11 [1649] - Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_, Book III, Number 7 If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_, Book XII, Number 17 - The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act; even when it has worked and he has not been caught. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Prejudices: Fourth Series_, ch. 11 [1924] Be true to your word and your work and your friend. --John Boyle O'Reilly (18441890) Irish-born poet and journalist. "Rules of the Road" in _The Life of John Boyle OReilly_ by James Jeffrey Roche [1891]. Never do anything, concerning the rectitude of which you have a doubt. --Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62c.115) Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters. Attributed in Adam Woolιver (comp.) _Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor_, p. 114 [3rd ed. 1878]. What is left when honor is lost? --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Maxims_ For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks not that you won or lost But how you played the game. --Grantland Rice (18801954) American sports writer. "Alumunus Football", l. 63 [1908] - I entirely appreciate loyalty to one's friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. In Hermann Hagedorn and Sidney Wallach _A Theodore Roosevelt Round-Up_ [1958] "Signposts for Americans: Random Thoughts". In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. --attributed to Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. - [Concerning the corruptibility of Roman upper classes:] Only a few held their honor dearer than gold. --Sallust [Gaius Sallustius Crispus] (c. 86 BC35/34 BC) Roman historian. _The Jugurthine War_ [c. 4140 B.C.] - Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Richard II_, I, i [1595] Honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Troilus and Cressida_, III, iii [1602] - - You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _The Revolutionist's Handbook_ [1905] The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not also a man of honor. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish dramatist and critic. _The Doctor's Dilemma_ [1906 play] - The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; ... all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. --Socrates (470?399 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Attributed in Tryon Edwards (using pseud. Everard Berkeley) _The World's Laconics..._, p. 21 [1853]. Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. --attributed to Sophocles (496?406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. He whose honor depends on the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconstant, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly. --Benedict de Spinoza (16321677) Dutch-Jewish philosopher, the foremost exponent of 17th century Rationalism. _Ethics_, pt. III [1677] Honor wears different coats to different eyes. --Barbara Tuchman [nθe Wertheim] (19121989) American historian and author. _The Guns of August_ [1962] Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and your country, let men label you as they may. --attributed to Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. - She offered her honor. 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