Quotes About Honor

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

God, it's nice to be treated like a man.

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.