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Starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times. — Pearl S. Buck

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC. — Mariella Frostrup

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded. — Chanakya

The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. — Benjamin E. Mays

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know
how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him. — Norman Maclean

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. — Plutarch

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. — James Thomson

something good will come out of that disgrace, pain, hopelessness, troubles and cries. It's happening right now. Not tomorrow. — Paul Gitwaza

Blue Face
Disgusting taste
Flush it
Shush it
Cold disgrace — Wendelin Van Draanen

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace. — Sophocles

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. — Aristotle.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom. — Philip K. Dick

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world. — Laozi

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree. — Rebecca West

How it must be when one is finally free of all the pressures honor brings and one can endlessly enjoy the unbounded advantages of disgrace - and — Thomas Mann

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E.F. Schumacher

Praise and disgrace cause fear. — Laozi

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace. — Marcel Carne

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race. — James Russell Lowell

The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country. — Arthur Koestler

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. — Jim Palmer

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter. — Hugh Nibley

The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying. — Ken Follett

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged. — Shirley Hazzard

If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace," I said. "But I will love you like no other can. — Steven E. Wedel

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful. — Thucydides

You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place. — Queen Elizabeth II

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace. — Wallace Tripp

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead. — Plato

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace. — Dirk Nowitzki

No matter how deep in disgrace, a human being IS human, after all. — Sayo Masuda

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking. — Pericles

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on. — Gloria Steinem

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. — Thomas Willis

The wise are greatly revered,
the righteous are exceedingly honored,
and the foolish are repeatedly disgraced. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races. — Tupac Shakur

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or more become a congress. -John Adams — Sherman Edwards

Even when they have been felled, let alone when they are still standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves, — Tom Holland

Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace. — Rumi

Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation. — Frances Power Cobbe

His daughters had lived their early life in permanent disgrace for having, none of them, been born a boy. — Anthony Powell

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. — Horatio Nelson

They called her a disgrace to the nurturing traditions of womankind. They threatened to paint a mustache on her and shoot off her nipples. — Tom Robbins

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world. — Laozi

Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace! — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

People say I'm a disgrace to the human race. I love overweight women when they sit on my face. — R.A. The Rugged Man

It is no disgrace but honourable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids; — Xenophon

Uncle Drew shouts. You are a disgrace. Your mother should have swallowed. — Tara Sivec Love And Lists

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. — Anonymous

Rage is a useful emotion. Rage burns away sorrow and disgrace. — Eloisa James

Claire was de rigeuer even in disgrace. — Tracy Anne Warren

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it. — Joyce Meyer

My love to love is love but to disgrace it,
For I have heard it is a life in death,
That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath. — William Shakespeare

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe. — Rex Stout

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail — Henry Ford

Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace ... — Bruno Kreisky

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. — Saul Bellow

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces. — Walter Scott

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody. — Maria Augusta Von Trapp

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth. — Epictetus

An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman. — Rose Henniker Heaton

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing. — Nora Roberts

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him. — Al-Shafi'i

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. — Plautus

It is no disgrace to rest a bit. — Gene Fowler

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried. — Ken Kesey

Then why go through this farce?" "Just like hell has multiple levels, so does disgrace. — Denise Grover Swank

Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
[Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.] — George Herbert

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it. — Barbara Holland

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. — Phaedrus

Those who are content suffer no disgrace. — Laozi

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is. — Josh Billings

America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace. — Jimmy Webb

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. — George Eliot

No one can disgrace us but ourselves. — Josh Billings

Dare we ask what made you willing to suffer the furry disgrace? — Shannon Messenger

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. — Hesiod

Getting fired, going out with a bang, leaving in disgrace ... these are all things I can do no problem — J.S. Breving

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice. — Horace

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace. — Rickie Lee Jones

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace. — Tom Hunter

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born. — Anna Held

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it. — Ben Hogan

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again. — Ricky Gervais

Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians. — F.F. Bruce

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule. — Lord Chesterfield

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient. — James Weldon Johnson

There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace. — Morgan Llywelyn

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures. — Thomas Browne

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. — Philip Sidney

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson

Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace. — Barbara Kingsolver

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace? — William Cowper