The known shortness of life, as it ought to moderate our passions, may likewise, with equal propriety, contract our designs. There is not time for the most forcible genius, and most active industry, to extend its effect beyond a certain sphere. To project the conquest of the world is the madness of mighty princes; to […]
Honor Quotes
The best acting at the Academy Awards is done by the losers congratulating the winners.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Honor lies in honest toil.
When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for awhile. (Despite dozens of Academy Award nominations this was the first appearance he made at the ceremony when he had made a special presentation asking producers to continue filming movies in […]
There are circumstances which have to do with simple human honor. No matter the risk. To resist and not surrender.
Honor before profit; where practical.
I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.
Ovation, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser “triumph.”
