Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

Jean de la Bruyere

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

Jay Leno

You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.

You can know someone in a moment of Honesty than ever you can in a lifetime of Lies..

Evo Morales

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty...

Moe Howard

If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!

Mindy Grossman

I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.

Kevin Drew

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

Karl Marx

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Judith Crist

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

Myles Munroe

The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship; for a female, communication and conversation. The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness. The fourth basic need of a male is domestic support; for a female, financial support. The fifth basic need of a male is admiration and respect; for a woman, family commitment.

Moliere

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

H. G. Wells

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

H. L. Mencken

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle

H. L. Mencken

[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.

J. Reuben Clark

Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me to be the dangers that were ahead, and I urged you at that time to practice the old virtues of thrift, of honesty, of truthfulness, of industry, and so on through the list of those I named. All that I said then I say again.

J. Reuben Clark

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

Grant Morrison

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve

Gene Hackman

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Jerry Bridges

But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.

Gertrude Stein

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Gerald R. Ford

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Jim Croce

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

Jim Cummings

Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty , but it also implies that your motive in following, your motive is a reward .

Jeremy Foley

I do know that you've just got to be honest and open.

Howard Stern

I'm the voice of honesty.