Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward de Bono

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

Hayley Williams

I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is.

Hayley Williams

Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.

Henry Ford

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

Henry Ward Beecher

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

Henry Fielding

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

John Krasinski

Let's be honest, there are a lot of family movies; I like some of them, I don't like other ones.

Johann Lamont

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave; the best and the worst are only approximations to those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself. Who are they that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quantum of congruities and incongruities.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Graydon Carter

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Gore Verbinski

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

John Lyly

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

John Lyly

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

John Lydon

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

Jimmy Buffett

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

Jimmy Buffett

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

Jimmy Buffett

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

Jimmy Buffett

Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple

Jim Rohn

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

George Lopez

I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.

George Lopez

I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but when you think that honesty and truth is really your best weapon you embrace it and put it behind you. In the end, it drives you and motivates you to do good work. No one should be ashamed about where they come from as long as you desire to be a compassionate and decent person.

Howard Dean

A lot of them never made an honest living in their lives,

Gretchen Wilson

They're the kind of people who were honest. They'd listen and tell me what they thought - the kind of honesty you need when you're trying to perfect your craft.

It's the mark of honesty when a person takes the witness stand.

They didn't really threaten a whole lot, to be honest with you. We just pitched well.

I told them that night that I was an honest man.

Jeb Bush

There's a lot of uncertainty, to be honest with you, about how to proceed.

Linford Christie

I took that as a racial connotation, to be honest with you.