Quotes on Honesty
--The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
--Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
--Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
--Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
F. M. Hubbard
--If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
--When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
Pamela Ribon
--An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
--Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
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