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"Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow."
"Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty."
"Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo."
"It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity."
"What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action."
"Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor."
"It's thrilling and it's an honor to be part of something bigger than your own self."
"Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next."
"Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow."
"Ability without honor has no value."
"The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied."
"I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped."
"Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code."
"We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us."
"The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs."
"I honor health as the first Muse."
"(About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts."
"My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from."
"Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk."
"The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad."
