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- The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
- Charles Peguy
- We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
- M. Henry
- Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- There is a history in all men's lives.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
- Author Unknown
- For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- "Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
- Author Unknown
- A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"
"Only the village druggist," was the answer. "And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman. "Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you." - Author Unknown
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