quotes on honesty

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. ~Niccolo Machiavelli



Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. ~Louis Kossuth



Save a tree. Eat a beaver. ~Author Unknown



Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ~Jane Austen



Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. ~Tom O'Connor



Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders? ~Friedrich Nietzsche



When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It's just life - wake up and smell the thorns. ~From the movie Meet Joe Black



The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881



Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. ~Elbert Hubbard



Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. ~Thomas A. Edison



A drug is that substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a scientific report. ~Author Unknown



So what? So plenty! ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak



The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. ~Brad Shapcott



I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ~Duane Michals, Real Dreams



Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown



Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. ~Author Unknown



Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration. ~Dave Barry



It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. ~Edith Sitwell



Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. ~Evelyn Cunningham