"Honor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a medal, if of great intrinsic value, would be an unwise expenditure. The Victoria Cross is an example of a successful foundation, highly prized, but of small intrinsic value. If made of gold, it would carry no greater honor, and would be more liable to be stolen, melted down ...
— The Future of Astronomy • Edward C. Pickering
... honor, does it, with regard to a man who not only injured you, but pounded your face ...
— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... world has scattered round my path Honor and wealth and fame; But naught so precious as the thoughts That gather ...
— Poems • Frances E. W. Harper
... another, it is merely because they dare not. The law of self-preservation prevents them from becoming anthropophagi. A knowledge that the eater may in his turn be eaten, is not appetizing. Materially and professionally successful, possessed of a physique that did honor to his ancestors and Nature, no shadows fell on Landor's path to chasten his spirit. Trials he endured of a private nature grievous in the extreme, yet calculated to harden rather than soften the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various
... year 1803, an honest old farmer of the name of Hanz Toodleburg. Hanz was held in high esteem by his neighbors, many of whom persisted in pronouncing his name Toodlebug, and also electing him hog-reef every year, an honor he would invariably decline. He did this, he said, out of respect to the rights of the man last married in the neighborhood. It mattered not to Hanz how his name was pronounced; nor did it ever occur to him that some of his more ambitious descendants might be ...
— The Von Toodleburgs - Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family • F. Colburn Adams
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