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She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife. — Emily Dickinson

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. — Angelina Grimke

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession. — Moss Hart

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. — Muriel Spark

Honor your daughters. They are honorable. — Malala Yousafzai

Here, too, the honorable finds its due
and there are tears for passing things; here, too,
things mortal touch the mind. — Virgil

That the most honorable thing in life is not to live it selfishly, but to take risks for those we love. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison. — David Baldacci

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations. — Harmon Killebrew

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. — Stephen King

With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable these days. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Because if Grandpa Portman wasn't honorable and good, I wasn't sure anyone could be. — Ransom Riggs

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor. — William Shakespeare

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I believe I am an honorable man. — Joseph J. Ellis

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is. — Eva Ibbotson

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception? — Keith R.A. DeCandido

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you. — T.F. Hodge

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. — Russell M. Nelson

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide. — Kurt Vonnegut

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. — Quintus Curtius Rufus

What would his friends think? The Honorable Hatlee Beech, federal judge, writing prose like a faggot, extorting money out of innocent people. — John Grisham

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. — Heath L'Estrange

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. — Edward Abbey

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. — Winfield Scott Hancock

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. — Mortimer Adler

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man. — Evel Knievel

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Is he blind, or merely stupid?"

"He is honorable. Sometimes it amounts to the same thing. — George R R Martin

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work. — Don Nickles

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. — William J. Clinton

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country. — Horace

Be honest.
Be kind.
Be honorable.
Work hard.
And always be awesome. — Wil Wheaton

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home. — Archibald Cox

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. — Pindar

The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere. — Ryan Lilly

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. — Mary McCarthy

Fellowship with Christ is so honorable that the sorest sorrow is a light price by which to procure it. Another — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion. — William Shakespeare

The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When in doubt, always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are. — Aldous Huxley

I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done with it, the better. — Neil Postman

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. — Moliere

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. — Citium Zeno

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester. — Philippe Petit

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have. — William Shakespeare

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. (Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.)-A Wrinkle in Time — Seneca.

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar. — George W. Melville

Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it. — Gabe Paul

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. — Jimmy Breslin

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night. — George R R Martin

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. — Henry Clay

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole. — Seneca The Younger

There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them. — Ann Coulter

All members of a Cabinet are referred to as Right. Honorable Gentlemen. There are only three things wrong with such a title ... — Michael Dobbs

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man. — Confucius

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows. — Cardinal Richelieu

THE Right Honorable Edward Junius Carsington, Earl of Hargate, had five sons, which was three more than he needed. — Loretta Chase

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. — Thomas Jefferson

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. — Charles W. Pickering

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all. — Henry James

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory. — Millard Fillmore

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. — John Ruskin

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. — Leonid Andreyev

Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons. — Tamara Hughes

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum. — Isaac Asimov

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. — Ronald Reagan

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion - in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar)
It's an honorable profession. (Takeshi)
Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men. — Ellen J. Barrier

I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable. — Eddie Izzard

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals. — Richard Pryor

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality. — John Wolcot

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. — Seneca.

The law is not designed to make us honorable, only bearable. — Marie C. Malaro

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word. — Jesse Williams

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. — Nathan Hale

Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two. — Michael Hintze

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. — Edward Gibbon

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. — Akio Morita

And Brutus is an honorable man, — Julius Caesar

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them. — Claudia Christian

Being a cat means beautiful, agile, innocent, brave, curious and trust also honorable respect for as much as not so doing bribery. — Sekar Arum

He seemed so cold. Like a shadow caused by heat and light falling on someone honorable and true, casting this black imitation behind. — Brandon Sanderson

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise. — Plato

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be. — Shannon L. Alder

It is just as honorable ... to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best work only when th body has been developed equally well. — William Warren Prescott

There are no honorable causes. There is no good or evil. Evil is only what we call those who oppose us. — Michael Sullivan

Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge. — Confucius