Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.