Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
Honor Quotes
Honor buys no meat in the market.
Honor is better than honors.
A man of honor should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.
I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. (Henry V)
Always deal with people of principle. Favor them and win their favor. Their very rectitude ensures they will treat you well even when they oppose you, for they act like who they are, and it is better to fight with good-minded people than to conquer the bad. There is no way to get along with […]
I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious than life. (Troilus and Cressida)
No man of honor, as that word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste and temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, or to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
