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| On HONESTY |
 "Honesty is clearly a lesser evil than dishonesty in most cases, however honesty is not always the best policy; it is often under the guise of honesty that rumors, gossip, slander, defamation of character, broken confidences, spousal betrayal, and even treason prevail."--- Shane Sorenson Pond "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." --- Thomas Jefferson "It is never right to compromise with dishonesty." --- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr "It is within families that truth is best learned, integrity is cultivated, self-discipline is instilled, and love is nurtured." --- Gordon B. Hinckley "It's discourging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." --- Sir No�l Coward "Learn what is true in order to do what is right." --- Thomas Henry Huxley "Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity; but then--we elected them." --- Lily Tomlin "No legacy is so rich as honesty." --- William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well. Act iii. Sc. 5. "People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty." --- Richard J. Needham "Straight forwardness and honesty in the activities of one's body, speech, and mind lead to an auspicious path." --- Tattvarthasutra 6.23 (Jainism) "The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made." --- George Burns "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." --- Oscar Wilde "To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny." --- Joseph Addison "To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest." --- Mahatma Ghandi "Truth never damages a cause that is just." --- Mohandas Gandhi "Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes Submit your bits of honesty to [email protected]. |