Honor

Famous quotes containing the word honor:

“‘Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows
When, after death, man’s honor is his guard.
So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie,
Shall live, for all that’s noblest will survive.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 14:31.

“We honor motherhood with glowing sentimentality, but we don’t rate it high on the scale of creative occupations.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)