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164 quotesLocks keep out only the honest.
Crime and Criminals
Jewish Proverb
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Food and Eating
Samuel Johnson
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Age and Aging
Samuel Johnson
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Ambition
Samuel Johnson
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A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Inheritance
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
Coward and Cowardice
George A. Knight
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
Respectability
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Honesty
Steve Landesberg
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Egotism
Frank Leahy
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
Dishonesty
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Politicians and Politics
Abraham Lincoln
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
Honesty
John Lyly
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Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
Candor
George Macdonald
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Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
Honesty
Sidney Madwed
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Anger
Malabar Proverb
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An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt.
Doubt
Walter Malone
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Honesty
Don Marquis
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There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
Honesty
Groucho Marx
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A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Doctrine
Lord Melbourne
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Politicians and Politics
H. L. Mencken
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
Love
H. L. Mencken
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Critics and Criticism
Henry Miller
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If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Honesty
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
Life and Living
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Honesty
Richard J. Needham
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun