Better die with honor than live with shame.


English Proverb

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I'd rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.
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Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.
VIETNAMESE PROVERB
It is better to die with your boots on than to live as a bootlicker.
AMIT KALANTRI
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
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Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
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ENGLISH PROVERB
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CHRISTINE FEEHAN
Better to live shamed than die proud.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
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ALVIN TOFFLER
I'd rather live with the answer than die with the question.
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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
DOLORES IBARRURI
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
When you dice with Death, you had better hope that you don't get craps!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
It is better to live rich, than to die rich.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
ERNESTO 'CHE' GUEVARA
It is better to deal with the devil we know than the devil we don’t know.
VIKRANT PARSAI
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LEWIS CARROLL
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It is better to die giving all,than to live holding all.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
DOLORES IBARRURI (PASIONARIA)
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
MICHAEL CRICHTON
I would rather die trying
than live a life filled with regrets.
CHRISSY BYERS
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
EMILIANO ZAPATA
It is better to die for something significant than to live for nothing
FAGBAYIMU SAMSON ADEOLA
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SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. (English Proverb.
UNKNOWN
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb
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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
EMILIANO ZAPATA
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
EMILIANO ZAPATA
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. LAWRENCE
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D.H. LAWRENCE
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU
It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.
WILLIAM MARKIEWICZ
It is better to die young rich in adoration than to live long amongst poor principles.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
It is better to die young rich in love, than to live long amid poor principles.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
TERRY BROOKS
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
IRWIN SHAW
Honor is better than honors
FLEMISH PROVERB
You have to ignore risks, put your brain on hold and follow your instincts, even when your head insi...
DARREN SHAN
Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees
EMILIANO ZAPATA
Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees
EMILIANO ZAPATA
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
TENZING NORGAY
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
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Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
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I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.
SARA PARETSKY
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
What good is having any friends if you can't use them...
VIOLETA GARCIA
A woman's reputation is her worth... IT is the way it is. You may hate me for saying so, but there i...
LIBBA BRAY
I like myself better when I'm with you.
MITCH ALBOM
Work for your satisfaction & which serves a cause.If you work only for applause,it will loose its pu...
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NORM TOMLINSON
When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE
The doctors with ailments not willing to take the treatment should be treated first. The doctors wit...
APURVA GAGLANI
What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, a...
T.D. JAKES
You run with time , it is in day or night has less important. If not run then time run away. You nee...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER
I am too perfect... to be here with you...
DEYTH BANGER
…If anything else, all I ever did was love you….
BETH FANTASKEY
A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all, depending on...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live ba...
EPICTETUS
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife
BIBLE
Then when I am sad and understand nothing anymore, I say to myself that it's better to die while you...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
Beggars die with their hand out. Givers live with their hand extended.
TROY J. GAINEY
I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him...
LAUREN OLIVER
To live with you is to live.
To live without you is to die.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Wealth lost---something lost; honor lost---much lost; Courage lost---all lost.
GERMAN PROVERB
It's tough when loving family and friends die. It's a shame, but he's in a better place now.
JEFF KIRK
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLES
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life ...
ANONYMOUS
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, <...
SOPHOCLES
You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the i...
CONVERSATION WITH APIGEON
Live for myself, so Is better that you die.
DHARM PANDEY
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
JANE SMILEY
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
Don't die with the music on your tongue unsung!
Don't die with the apps in your mind undesigned...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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AMBROSE BIERCE
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.
JAY-Z
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LEVY MWANAWASA
It is better to live with your suffering than to hide from it. Hiding steals your peace.
JIM GENOVESE
Live with a mission; act with passion.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
LAO TZU
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting hon...
KURT VONNEGUT
'Tis more brave To live, than to die.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH")
Live for something rather than die for nothing.
GEORGE S. PATTON JR.
I'd rather die my way than live yours.
LAUREN OLIVER
It is better to live alone & be at peace,than to have a huge family filled with troubles.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS
Get out of your own way! Learn to work with yourself instead of against.
AKIROQ BROST
A woman apologizing first in an argument to a man is like giving a freebie, which often has a big hi...
ANUJ SOMANY
The day will last for sometime. But at night, when I am with you, it last forever.
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