Honor Quotes - Page 48
Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one
'To Christopher Isherwood' (1930)
Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.
"Justice vs. Punishment" by Vanna Bonta, September 14, 2006.
What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The American Crisis, 21 Mar. 1778
Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.109
Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.85, Algora Publishing
Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.570, Library of America
The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?
1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.41-4.
Letter to Harrison Morris, April 23, 1894.
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1516, Moody Publishers
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 124, 1895.