Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dewey

The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

Garrison Keillor

To the cheater, there is no such thing as honesty, and to Republicans the idea of serving the public good is counterfeit on the face of it — they never felt such an urge, and therefore it must not exist.

Garrison Keillor

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

John Cullum

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

Joel Osteen

I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Mao Zedong

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

Madison Smartt Bell

In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for which his work is deservedly known. This book is incisive, startling, and often genuinely moving.

Lysander Spooner

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.

Louisa May Alcott

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law ...

John Gokongwei

Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing.

Leo Tolstoy

Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.

Leo Tolstoy

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Leo Tolstoy

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

Leo Tolstoy

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...

Leo Burnett

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

Lee Ryan

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

Lady Gaga

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

Lady Gaga

I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

Lewis Carroll

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

John Lyly

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

John Lyly

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

John Lydon

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

Jimmy Buffett

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

Jimmy Buffett

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

Jimmy Buffett

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

Jimmy Buffett

Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple

Jim Rohn

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

George Lopez

I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.

George Lopez

I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but when you think that honesty and truth is really your best weapon you embrace it and put it behind you. In the end, it drives you and motivates you to do good work. No one should be ashamed about where they come from as long as you desire to be a compassionate and decent person.

Elisabeth Moss

Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.

Judith Martin

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

Judith Martin

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Judith Martin

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.