Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Foster

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

English 15th Century Proverbs

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.

Rudyard Kipling

And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!

Buddha

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots

Epictetus

I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?

Nicholas Boileau

Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.

Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

Horatio Nelson

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

George Herbert

Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.