Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

George M. Cohan

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Carolyn Wells

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Indira Gandhi

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Henry David Thoreau

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Bill Vaughan

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

Queen Elizabeth II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Nisha Singhania

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Tracy Brown

ODORS ARE ALWAYS OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE AND NEVER OF NOBLE BIRTH.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Baha'u'llah

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Ayn Rand

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Corrie Ten Boom

There is explosive power in virtue.

William Shakespeare

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.