A Quotes
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“An honest God is the noblest work of man.”
“An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his
creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably
found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with
sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine
perfume.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“An honest goodbye is one that does not seek excuses or reasons, or explanations of any kind. Ultimately, it is not because of this or that that we part from a lover. Far from being an orderly linear progression, causes and effects form a complex web of interacting forces that together manifest in this or that result, which in its turn becomes part of the web and contributes to whatever comes next. The web itself is as broad and deep as the ocean. Behind every event, no matter how small, is a universe of causative factors stretching back through time as well as space. So let us rather bow to the fact and the mystery of what is before us, whatever it may be, and embrace its reality, regardless of its origins, without trying to control it by explaining it away.”
Source: Ten Poems to Say Goodbye
“An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!”
“An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.”
Source: Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts
“An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.”
Source: Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative
“An honest heart loves the Truth.”
“An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.”
“An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“An honest lie is better than a boring truth.”
Source: Wanders wonders: design for a New Age
“An honest life starts with an honest assessment of self. You are neither worthless nor preeminent but somewhere in between.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.”
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Robert Burns, arranged in the order of their earliest publication: (... by Scott Douglas)
“An honest man is a debtless man, he doesn't owe anyone anything.”
“An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.”
Source: The Lower Depths
“An honest man is always a child.”
“An honest man is always a child.
[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]”
“An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.”
Source: J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons
“An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.”
“An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“An honest man is respected by all parties.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.”
“An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.”
“An honest man nearly always thinks justly.”
“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.”
“An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“An honest man will never walk in the shadow of another.”
“An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.”
“An honest man won’t stoop to swindle,
thieve, or tell a lie.
Despite his need, despite the greed,
an honest man would rather die.
An honest man will seek out better,
higher roads to take.
Integrity and loyalty,
an honest man will ne’er forsake.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.”
“An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.”
“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”
“An honest man's word is as good as his bond.”
Source: Don Quixote
“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.”
“An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
“An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“An honest money system is the only alternative.”
“An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.”
“An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.”
“An honest politician is an oxymoron.”
“An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.”
Source: Captains and the Kings: A Novel
“An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.”
“An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.”
Source: Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell
“An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.”
Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.”
“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.”