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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."


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DEMI MOORE Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
WELSH PROVERB Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
WENDELL L. WILLKIE Cartooning is an honorable thing.
BILL SIENKIEWICZ No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
CITIUM ZENO No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
ZENO Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
DAVID GEMMELL There is nothing wrong with being an honorable lobbyist.
RON DELLUMS It really is an honor to at least get the honorable mention. A lot of us wanted that award. It would...
JEAN GRAVES It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it
THOMAS JEFFERSON Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
JASPER FFORDE Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Why should there be? ... honorable.
KEN JOHNSON The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.
AKIO TOYODA Definitely! It didn't feel good (Thursday) night getting honorable mention, but that's just motivati...
CASEY MOORE The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for...
ANEURIN BEVAN He had an honorable performance.
ERNIE CHATMAN When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third ra...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of characte...
HENRY CLAY One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. ESTRANGE Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.
EVEL KNIEVEL If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing ar...
CONFUCIUS What is permissible is not always honorable.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
SENECA In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side.
GINA GERSHON It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
JOHN RUSKIN Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking th...
AMBROSE BIERCE There will always be fools in this world, the key, as an honorable man, is to do as much good as you...
MICHAEL RAYSH The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorab...
JEANNETTE RANKIN I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
RACHEL MADDOW Seventy-nine votes is (a) pipe dream. We expect the opposition to show some statesmanship as expecte...
IGNACIO BUNYE Don’t imitate other people in your life,have your own entity,be positive & work hard.Have honorabl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA One honorable young man can make all the difference...
ROBERT L. BECK It is a more honorable approach than the Red Sea parting shower curtain.
HANS ZIMMER Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any s...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE gregarious, decent, honorable, likable.
FRANK KEATING His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way ...
HENRY FIELDING His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way ...
HENRY FIELDING He will retire as commander, with full pension and with an honorable characterization of discharge, ...
CHARLES GITTINS As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this w...
C.S. LEWIS There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.
DASHANNE STOKES A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
PINDAR A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality
PINDAR The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to v...
STEVEN MAGEE Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
THOMAS MANN Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or ...
MORTIMER ADLER I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring ...
BENIGNO AQUINO III Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.
NOAM CHOMSKY Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
ALBERT CAMUS A dull man sits around and watches as the world is burning. An average man attempts to save his prop...
RICHARD BELLZON Integrity is jewel of honorable character.Courage , confidence & commitment makes it valuable orname...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA All of us are against human cloning. I believe we can do this in an honorable and ethical manner.
DANNY HEUMANN The man in whose footsteps I wish to follow is probably the most honorable man in Idaho politics.
FRED WOOD Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
MARIO PUZO He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbi...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS He did it the honorable, wise and decent way,
HAROLD VOGEL So, Vermilion in Bloom has classes like this on a year-round basis to get the community involved. Th...
JOAN COLWELL The right honorable gentlemen's smile is like the silver fittings of a coffin
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.
SUZY KASSEM Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Pol...
PAT RILEY Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI extremely honorable, she was extremely honest.
CARY GOLDSTEIN Humility makes great men twice honorable
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is a small game that took about two to three weeks to make. Since its release, it has been downlo...
DAN WOLFE All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We applaud his wanting to be absolutely, totally honorable in every way,
PETER UEBERROTH At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistanc...
MAYA ANGELOU The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.
GURUDAS DASGUPTA Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
RAE CARSON Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT I would submit the FDA jurisdiction is lawless, however honorable its intentions.
RICHARD COOPER Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping i...
ROY T. BENNETT Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS In simple terms, this is the story of a decent and honorable young man embarked on a spiritual quest...
FRANK LINDH PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subseq...
AMBROSE BIERCE To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a mo...
OLYMPIA SNOWE It is a good man who stands up for his friends, but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies.
VIOLET HABERDASHER The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.
DON WILLIAMS JR Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men...
XENOPHON Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror
VOLTAIRE Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum inc...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) I never did any TV before. But this was the most honorable and worthwhile show I could be involved w...
RICHARD PRICE The fact they've been recovered and been presented in an honorable way would have given him a lot of...
ROBERTA CRAWFORD The higher the culture the more honorable the work.
ROUCHER You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace...
LARRY BROWN Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
THOMAS FULLER If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MORE Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
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