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

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

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

Night hath a thousand eyes.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

I like honesty and fair play.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Honesty is very sexy.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Honesty will never break you.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Honesty is the best policy.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.