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  • Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.

  • You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.

  • It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

  • Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

    Henry Clay (1981). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Secretary of State 1827”, p.769, University Press of Kentucky
  • the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.

    Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.76
  • To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

  • While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

    Real   Eye   Men  
    Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.62, Library of Alexandria
  • Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.

    Stephen Mansfield (2013). “Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self”, p.56, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

    War   Sacrifice   Men  
    Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

  • You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

  • Well, I think a handshake is something that honorable men do. Before we had contracts we had handshakes that expressed that we were making an arrangement that was based on our honor. And I don't think I can shake the hand of someone who shows and lacks honor by attacking a man's faith.

    Men   Thinking   Hands  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

    Christian   Believe   Men  
  • We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

    "The Godfather".
  • But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

    War   Men   Honorable Man  
  • Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

    Revenge   Ambition   Men  
  • I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

    Men   Honorable Man   May  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.344
  • I believe I am an honorable man.

  • Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

    Christian   Atheist   Men  
    "L'examen important de Milord Bolingbroke écrit sur la fin de 1736". Book by Voltaire. Conclusion, 1736.
  • When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

  • Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

    Country   War   Men  
    George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”
  • It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.

    Beautiful   Strong   Mean  
    "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.
  • The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

    Crazy   Men   Order  
    Walker Percy (1989). “Lancelot”
  • Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

    "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
  • There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5800, e-artnow
  • An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

    The Natural History of Nonsense A Tale of a Tub
  • A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow
  • A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

    Men   Honorable Man   Doe  
  • America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

    Believe   Men   Rights  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.69, Princeton University Press
  • An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions.

    Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”
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