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Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.


Hesiod

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KARL MARX There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance.
IAN-ANTHONY FINNIMORE There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
RUSSIAN PROVERB There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
ALISON CROGGON I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI There is no shame in feeling bad about having to kill. The shame comes when you no longer care.
ROBYN WIDEMAN Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals,...
XENOPHANES Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr...
HERMAN MELVILLE Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr...
HERMAN MELVILLE The secret is I have no shame.
DAKOTA JOHNSON There is no other shame like senseless sin.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at o...
BETH DITTO Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either...
HERMAN MELVILLE You can cry, ain't no shame in it
WILL SMITH These people have no shame.
CHARLES SCIARRA Depression is devastating, and there is no shame in getting treatment.
DR. LLOYD SEDERER There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and re...
JOHN KRAMER Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; sh...
HESIOD There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
LOUIS THEROUX There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
HOWARD ZINN Doubt is the brother of shame.
UGO BETTI Doubt is the brother of shame.
ERIK ERIKSON Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,No touch of bashfulness?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
JOHANNES KEPLER Shame is pride's cloak.
WILLIAM BLAKE Shame is Prides cloke.
WILLIAM BLAKE no shame, no humanity, no morals and no principles.
PRINCE ABDULLAH Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
JOHN GIELGUD There is no shame in failing; it is a better way to get stronger faster.
DEBASISH MRIDHA It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefie...
MARK LAWRENCE Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
RUSSIAN PROVERB The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
SYDNEY SMITH Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame er...
BRENE BROWN Besides, shame is the master emotion.
BRUCE MCCULLOCH O shame, where is thy blush?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so muc...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much ...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER While there is no shame in being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex - or even straight ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
WILLIAM EDWARD FORSTER There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
WILLIAM EDWARD FORSTER Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn
SOPHOCLES Claiming to be offended is a great way to elevate yourself at the expense of others: “Look at me! ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offe...
M.J. ROSE The only shame is to have none
BLAISE PASCAL [Koffi Annan is] a shame for Africa.
CHARLES BLE GOUDE The only shame is to have none.
BLAISE PASCAL There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I thought, this is really good work. It'd be a shame if no one saw it.
BILL BROWNING When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
MALCOLM X There's no shame in losing this way. I'm proud.
KEVIN O'HARA No need to feel shame for what you are.
DEYTH BANGER Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
ENGLISH PROVERB Playing roles and acting are forms of lying. If a person acts like they really feel and it rocks the...
JOHN BRADSHAW There is no disgrace in being knocked down, there is only shame in not getting back up; never quit!
KEN POIROT If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
TENZING NORGAY Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A bad hair cut is two people's shame
DANISH PROVERB Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE Common sense hides shame.
GAELIC PROVERB Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to u...
DOROTHY PARKER Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
CHINESE PROVERB The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel...
TITUS LIVY If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her l...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
JOHN DRYDEN Less shame a greater fault would palliate. [Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.]
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
ROBERT BURTON Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
UNKNOWN Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages
THOMAS J. WATSON, SR. Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame ...
LAO TZU The guilty catch themselves
PROVERB Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our pl...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he i...
JONATHAN SWIFT Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
JOHN LYLY Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for...
WILLARD GAYLEN As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what ...
TITUS LIVY If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudo...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. ...
KATHRYN STOCKETT Somebody said to me, "You won the Olympics, didn't you?" I said, "Yes." Wouldn't it be a shame if yo...
MARION ROSS It's a shame he had to wait this long, but I'm very happy for him because he damn sure deserves it.
LAWRENCE TAYLOR It's a shame but it was just one of those things that happen,
BARRY LANE F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me.
SEX AND THE CITY The most primitive experiences of shame are connected with sight and being seen, but it has been int...
BERNARD WILLIAMS should hang their head in shame.
JESSE VENTURA It is a shame that an actress of her stature has to go through this.
RAJ BABBAR We were undefeated as freshmen and sophomores. We went 8-1-1 as juniors. It was a shame to go out th...
BARRY HACKETT It's a shame someone had to lose that game. It would have been nice to get a shot in during that las...
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TAYLOR DENT I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
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