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"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go." »Homer
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"'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them." »David Borenstein
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"honor and shame from no condition rise.
Act well your part: there all the honor lies." »Alexander Pope
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"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper." »Francis Quarles
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"A pretty woman is a welcome guest." »Lord Byron
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"A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance." »Yiddish Proverb
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"A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest." »William Feather
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"One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household." »George Frost Kennan
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"A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year." »Polish Proverb
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"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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"After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather." »Benjamin Franklin
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"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave." »Homer
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"Where as gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their hand." »Simondes of Ceos
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"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in education these days arises, not from defects in the students,teachers or schools, not from want of equipment or technology, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of honor, virtue and kindness. Sound education... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection of childhood, on unselfish performance of teachers and on accountability and reliability." »Paul. F. Meekin
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"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest." »Horace
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"Death is a good Hotel : you are a guest at any Time. (Un bon hôtel est la mort. Elle nous accueille à toute heure)" »Charles de LEUSSE
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"honor has not to be won it must only not be lost." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Where there is no shame, there is no honor." »African Proverb
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"honor does not have to be defended." »Robert J. Sawyer
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"Reputation is what other people know about you. honor is what you know about yourself." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"An honor is not diminished for being shared." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"Don't look for more honor than your learning merits." »Jewish Proverb
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"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted." »Andrew Carnegie
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"What is left when honor is lost" »Publilius Syrus
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"What is left when honor is lost?" »Publilius Syrus
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"If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also." »Assyrian Proverb
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"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." »Sophocles
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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year." »Charles Dickens
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