Honest quotes and words of wisdom

"A few honest men are better than numbers."
Oliver Cromwell


"A wit "s a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man "s the noblest work of God."
Alexander Pope


"An honest politician is one, who, when he is bought, will stay bought."
Simon Cameron


"Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."
William Shakespeare


"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
Sigmund Freud


"Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission."
Thomas Jefferson


"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."
John G. Riefenbaker


"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
Epicurus


"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has."
Epictetus


"Honesty is the best image."
Tom Wilson


"Honesty is the best policy ? when there is money in it."
Mark Twain


"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."
Steve Landesberg


"Honesty"s the best policy."
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


"It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
Noël Coward


"Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


"Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity."
Don Marquis


"The best measure of a man"s honesty isn"t his income tax return. It"s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."
Arthur C. Clarke


"Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not wits enough to be honest."
Benjamin Franklin


"Where there is writing? there is a writer Where there is planning? there is a planner Where there is a building? there is a builder Where there is a miracle? there is a God!"
William Bliss Carman


"With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back."
Proverb


Interesting Quotes

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.Douglas Adams - English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.Sir Edmund Hillary