Best honor & pay Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.”

Should Facts America Political Nations Pay Football Honor Vote Raises Bills Surprise Debt Obligation Charlie Ceilings Predictable Rant Debt Ceiling

Author:Peter Welch

“The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.”

Way May Long Art Life Is Pay Attention Struggle Gone Willing Honor Long Time Paid Regard Notes Rewards Privilege Creator Sensible Citing Art Life

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.”

Littles Pay Enemy Nice Honor Cost Losing Advantage Treats Valuable Honored Courtesy Politeness Dividends

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention to us.'”

World Whole Pay Attention Willing Honor Please Demand Whole World Pay Attention Length Korea North Korea

Author:Stephen Colbert

“No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.”

Men Country Pay Wise Mankind Honor Promise Understood Regard Endeavor Obliged Oath Being Wise Chaste Creditors

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

“The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.”

Men Pain Enjoy Pleasure Pay Consciousness Duty Honor Rewards

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.”

Wanted Pay Records Honor Legacy Tribute

Author:Mike Portnoy

“Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.”

Names Pay Half Honor Soldier Legs Graves Peril Achilles Battered Old Soldiers

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.”

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.”

Pay Tears Honor Celebrate Funeral Weeping Rite

Author:Quintus Ennius

“In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.”

Knows Love Feels Trying Heart Order Grows Pay Struggle Pride Honor Enlightenment Deserve Perfection And Love Dues Division Relish

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.”

Life Believe Children Action Belief Pay Honor Dues Performing Boldness Hazards Pay The Price

Author:Akhenaton

“Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.”

Pleasure Pay Half Enemy Honor Conscience Secure Tribute Public Enemies

Author:William Congreve

“Be an example in your Church activity-honor the Sabbath day, attend your meetings, observe the Word of Wisdom, pay your tithes and offerings, support your leaders, and otherwise keep the commandments. Serve cheerfully and gratefully in every calling you receive. Live worthy of a temple recommend and enjoy the sweet, sacred spirit that comes from frequent temple attendance.”

Source: Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice

“If the guests want to wrest the check away from the host, because the host is also the guest of honor, then the guest who volunteers has to cover the whole thing. A guest can't volunteer -all- of the guests to pay for the host/honoree.”

Ifs Want Whole Pay Honor Checks Host Guests Volunteer

Author:Carolyn Hax

“We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.”

“Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of this honor. It's a wonderful ceremony that Eleanor Traylor chair of English at Howard University organizes for writers. Writers from around the country came to pay tribute to my work. It was very flattering.”

Heart Country Pay Wonderful Honor University Chairs Working It Organize Honored Ceremony Tribute Flattering Eleanor

Author:Ishmael Reed

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.”

Ifs World Values Pay Attention Confidence Honor Raises Critics Assured Statues Self Esteem And Confidence No Confidence Raise Self Esteem Help Self Esteem

Author:Jean Sibelius

“It was my honor to have done what I could do to help. I learned to never underestimate the possibility of change, that values have power and that time and patience can pay off, especially if you`re serious about your objectives.”

Ifs Done Helping Values Pay Possibility Serious Honor Objectives Underestimate Never Underestimate Time And Patience Possibility Of Change

Author:Daniel Fried

“When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.”

Enough Wisdom Literature Community Pay Teacher Wise Honor Mature

Author:Charles Kuralt

“We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.”

People Mind Values Views Numbers Pay Opinion Too Much Goes On Honor Errors Acquire Indifferent Superficial

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“You aristocratic ladies and your gold-plated twats. You always think it's such a honor for me to touch you." He surveyed her with mocking green eyes. "You think you're the first high-kick wench I've ever had? I used to have blue-blooded bitches like you pay me to do this. You've gotten it for free.”

Thinking Firsts Eye Used Pay Like You Honor Gold Blue Green Kicks Green Eyes Aristocratic Wenches

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists of an upright course of life. This is plainly taught us by the passage, "You that boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonor God."...For if he who transgresses the law dishonors God by his transgression,...it is evident that he who keeps the law honors God. So the worshipper of God is he whose life is regulated by the principles and teachings of the Divine Word”

Ifs Wells Law Life Is Courses Father Pay Principles Teaching Taught Divine Son Honor Worship Passages Evident Boast Taught Us Transgression Dishonor Worshippers Breaking The Law Course Of Life

Author:Origen

“Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.”

Ifs Men Speak Money Pay Honor Corruption Cash Truthful

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.”

Kind Art Different Religious Pay Honor Worship Spells Different Kinds

Book:Exhortation to the Heathen

Source: Exhortation to the Heathen

“Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against those who would destroy the freedoms we cherish. We are determined to achieve an enduring peace - a peace with liberty and with honor. This determination, this resolve, is the highest tribute we can pay to the many who have fallen in the service of our Nation.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

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