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Honesty is praised and starves


Juvenal

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Integrity is praised and starves.
UNKNOWN True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
JOHN MILTON Honesty is very sexy.
VALERIE BERTINELLI No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. [Lat., Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper ...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Honesty is something you can't wear out.
WAYLON JENNINGS Love either starves to death and becomes a shadow, or else it dies young and remains a dream.
JAMES JONES The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is ou...
LEWIS J. BATES "Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.
ROSE N. FRANZBLAU Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
BROOKE SHIELDS All fertile ideas are futile, all made money meaningless, if truth and honesty is not upheld.
APURVA GAGLANI Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
JUVENAL What we do is never understood, but only praised and blamed.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
PLATO Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
JAMES ALTUCHER I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
HARVEY S. FIRESTONE Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He is praised by some, blamed by others.
UNKNOWN There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.
BEN JONSON That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and par...
JAMES JOYCE Honesty, without gentleness, is nothing but brutality ... Gentleness, without honesty, is nothing bu...
FR. EMMERICH VOGT Talent is appreciated in heart; wealthy is praised through words only.
ANUJ SOMANY If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of h...
THEODORE PARKER A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD My career is based on openness and honesty.
KIM KARDASHIAN We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
H.A. IRONSIDE Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are pow...
DAVID WHYTE The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out ...
THEODORE PARKER And lips say ''God be pitiful,'' who never said, ''God be praised.''
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
ABU BAKR And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.
JOHN MILTON When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of th...
SHANNON L. ALDER Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows ...
SHANNON L. ALDER Party honesty is party expediency.
STEVEN GROVER CLEVELAND Honesty is the best image.
TOM WILSON Honesty is all you need.
CASS ELLIOT Honesty is the best policy.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Party honesty is party expediency.
GROVER CLEVELAND Honesty is certificate of trust.
ASHOK SINGH CHAUHAN Honesty is the best defense.
JIM GENOVESE What a fool honesty is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Honesty is the best image.
ZIGGY Honesty is the best policy.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac.
ZAN PERRION Honesty is not uber-macho.
CRISTINE It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great
CONFUCIUS It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
PHILIP SIDNEY Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...
JOSH BILLINGS ‎"A relationship is built similar to a house - foundation is friendship, without it you have no re...
STEPHANI MCLELLAN Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
BELL HOOKS The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but ...
NATHANIEL SMITH Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
DIANA WYNNE JONES Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really g...
ZIG ZIGLAR Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
DAN ARIELY Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus go...
LAO TZU Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawf...
JOSH BILLINGS Honesty is the foundation of trust.
JIM GENOVESE Honesty is the soul of business
DUTCH PROVERB Honesty is a very choosy virtue
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON And so much honesty. People go to school for years and years to get that kind of honesty.
CALLIE THORNE And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A Leader is praised by those who follow him, if not, then he is a Tyrant.
GIDEON O. OMORUYI The surest way to cause suspicion is through honesty and humility.
COLIN GORMAN Honesty is appreciated and valued only by THOSE, with good values.
NISHAL MAHARAJ Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
CICERO Honesty is not greater where elegance is less.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerou...
FIONA SHAW Interest in the Civil War is at an all-time high. The government starves the Park Service for resour...
JAMES MCPHERSON No legacy is so rich as honesty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Honesty is something you can't wear out
WAYLON JENNINGS Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.
JAMES PONIEWOZIK Welcome to life, where the innocent are punished, and the guilty are praised.
ERIC WISE Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
ANNA LINDH Love and honesty don’t mix.
MIGUEL SYJUCO The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
SCOTT HAMILTON True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
GARTH BROOKS I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., La...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
JAMES WOLFE If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have ...
DADA BHAGWAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolu...
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