Best honor & titles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost the reality of power. The English, having cut off the head of one of their kings and chased another off the throne, still go on their knees to address the successors of those princes. On the other hand, when a republic falls under one man's yoke, the ruler's demeanor remains simple, unaffected, and modest, as if he had not already been raised above everybody.”

Source: Democracy in America

“It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.”

World Firsts Four Player Honor Series Titles Yankees Fifth New York Yankees World Series

Author:Mark Teixeira

“The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.”

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Author:Horace

“For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.”

Men Honor Titles

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea, and from shore to shore: But in my thought, of all things that are sold, 'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold: It cuts off all desert.”

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Author:Eliza Haywood

“It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.”

Honor Ultimate Importance Titles

Author:Fred Rogers

“Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.”

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Book:1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus

Source: 1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus

“Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.”

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Book:RFK: collected speeches

Source: RFK: collected speeches

“It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.”

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Author:Pam Grier

“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.”

Values Literature Honor Gold Add Currents Impression Titles Silver Coins Brass

Author:Laurence Sterne

“More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee," I said. "more than any power in faerie, I love thee.”

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Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Stills Nations Liberty Honor Claims Titles Patriotism Patriotic Inventor

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court”

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Author:Philip Sidney

“Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.”

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Author:John Ford

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