#disgrace

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. ↗

— Thomas Willis

#children #disgrace #fortune #i #just

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover. ↗

— Edward Grey

#apart #bargain #country #disgrace #expense

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. ↗

— David Hare

#god #honor #only #sin #those

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

#idleness #which #work

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

#against #deprived #disgrace #himself #man

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#disgraced #fall #honor #somebody #washington

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#among #being #caused #contemptible #disarmed

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#disgrace #given #losing #you #your

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ↗

— Plato

#also #custom #disgraceful #equality #injustice

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#concept #couples #disgrace #eyes #had