Quotes about Honor
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
- Euripides
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
- GK Chesterton
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.
- Mark Twain
Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
- Mark Twain
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
- Mark Twain
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
- Pierre Corneille
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
- Publilius Syrus
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
- Herman Melville
Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'
- Ronald Reagan