Honorable Quotes

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.

I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world.

Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It’s an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar)

I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.

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.

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

No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!

There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

Cartooning is an honorable thing

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.

You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’” He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

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

The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.