Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fats Domino

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

Ezra Miller

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

Ezra Taft Benson

Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

Euripides

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Francis Bacon

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Herbert Hoover

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Henry Martyn

The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.

Catharine Beecher

The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

George Eliot

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

George Eliot

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Jim Brickman

The whole idea of my music now is honesty and really being who I am. It's not really something I decide, and it's not something that you learn.

James E. Faust

Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

Euripides

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

Euripides

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Cassandra Clare

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

Carolyn Kizer

I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a highly developed moral sense and a bitter honesty, is rare at any time and especially in this time. We need him.

Evo Morales

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

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.

Frank Zappa

My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

Fred Rogers

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

George Hamilton

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

Harold B. Lee

To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

Harold B. Lee

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

Graham Spanier

Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion.

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..

Burt Lancaster

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

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.