Honor lies in honest toil. [ Grover Cleveland ]

For he who is honest is noble.
Whatever his fortunes or birth. [ Alice Cary ]

An honest man is always a child. [ Martial ]

A nod of an honest man is enough. [ Proverb ]

How happy is he born or taught,
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armor is his honest thought
And simple truth his utmost skill! [ Sir Henry Wotton ]

Honest millers have golden thumbs. [ Proverb ]

Honest labour bears a lovely face. [ T. Dekker ]

Cutting honest throats by whispers. [ Walter Scott ]

An honest heart possesses a kingdom. [ Seneca ]

Honest men marry soon, wise men never. [ Scotch ]

Grant me honest fame or grant me none. [ Pope ]

No honest man has the leer of a rogue. [ Proverb ]

Honest men are justified by the light. [ Proverb ]

An honest good look covers many faults. [ Proverb ]

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Parent of wicked, bane of honest deeds. [ Prior ]

An honest man's the noblest work of God. [ Pope ]

A poor idle man cannot be an honest man. [ Achilles Poincelot ]

No honest man gets an estate of a sudden. [ Proverb ]

When it thunders the thief becomes honest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men. [ Richardson ]

Honest men never have the love of a rogue. [ Proverb ]

An honest man is respected by all parties. [ Hazlitt ]

Whilst it thunders the thief turns honest. [ Proverb ]

No honest man ever repented of his honesty. [ Proverb ]

An honest man's word is as good as his bond. [ Cervantes ]

He is wiser than most men are who is honest. [ Proverb ]

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

The first step to greatness is to be honest. [ Johnson ]

Honest minds are pleased with honest things. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

No doors are shut against honest grey-hairs. [ Proverb ]

Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt. [ William Shakespeare ]

Follow your honest convictions, and be strong. [ William M. Thackeray ]

Honest men's words are as good as their bonds. [ Proverb ]

We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. [ William Shakespeare ]

There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late
She finds some honest gander for her mate. [ Pope ]

The man who consecrates his hours
By vigorous effort, and an honest aim.
At once he draws the sting of life and death;
He walks with nature; and her paths are peace. [ Young ]

We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich. [ Proverb ]

Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark. [ Proverb ]

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. [ William Shakespeare ]

Honest water, which never left man in the mire. [ William Shakespeare ]

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc. 2 ]

None can be wise and safe but he that is honest. [ Proverb ]

He's not honest whom the lock only makes honest. [ Proverb ]

An honest woman is the one we fear to compromise. [ Balzac ]

Honest is the cat when the meat is upon the hook. [ Proverb ]

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a rogue. [ French Proverb ]

An honest and diligent servant is an humble friend. [ Proverb ]

He that lives a knave will hardly die an honest man. [ Proverb ]

Praise undeservedly bestowed wounds an honest heart. [ Boileau ]

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit. [ Willmott ]

Where knaves fall out, honest men come by their own. [ Proverb ]

Honest thinkers are always stealing from each other. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Be perseverance vouchsafed to every honest endeavour. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Where a chest lies open a reputed honest man may sin. [ Proverb ]

With an honest and a good man, business is soon ended. [ Proverb ]

Fools! not to know how better, for the soul,
An honest half, than an ill-gotten whole:
How richer, he who dines on herbs, with health
Of heart, than knaves with all their wines and wealth. [ Hesiod ]

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Honest men and knaves may possibly wear the same cloth. [ Proverb ]

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them. [ Beaumarchais ]

Honest men are soon bound, but you can never bind a knave. [ Proverb ]

If you pity rogues, you are no great friend of honest men. [ Proverb ]

Of all crafts to an honest man downright is the only craft. [ Proverb ]

As honest a man as any in the cards, when the kings are out. [ Proverb ]

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal it. [ Proverb ]

A good honest man now-a-days is but a better word for a fool. [ Proverb ]

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Once again I do receive thee honest.
Who by repentance is not satisfied is nor of heaven nor earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. [ Shirley ]

Knaves are in such repute, that honest men are accounted fools. [ Proverb ]

A dishonest woman cannot be kept in, and an honest one will not. [ Proverb ]

The more honest a man is, the less he affects the air of a saint. [ Lavater ]

You are an honest man, and I am your uncle, and that’s two lies. [ Proverb ]

A thread will tie an honest man better than a rope will do a rogue. [ Scotch Proverb ]

If you would have honest men, you must go out of the land for them. [ Proverb ]

How many honest words have buffered corruption since Chaucer's days! [ Thomas Middleton ]

When I wanted an honest man, I never thought to go to court for him. [ Proverb ]

To consume an honest soul with remorse is the greatest of all crimes. [ Mademoiselle Clairon ]

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. [ William Shakespeare ]

Crimes succeed by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. [ Tacitus ]

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. [ St. Gregory ]

Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it. [ Proverb ]

A small drop of ink makes many men honest, who would be rogues without it. [ W. Unsworth ]

There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest cause. [ Southern ]

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing. [ Proverb ]

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming. [ Cicero ]

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. [ George MacDonald ]

To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. [ William Shakespeare ]

Time, the prime minister of death! there's nought can bribe his honest will. [ Marvell ]

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. [ Byron ]

When a thief has no opportunity for stealing, he considers himself an honest man. [ Talmud ]

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him. [ William Penn ]

Debt is a heavy burden to an honest mind, but thievish borrowers make light of it. [ Proverb ]

First resolutions are not always the wisest, but they are usually the most honest. [ Lessing ]

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Ay, sir, to be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of two thousand. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

There is in hypocrisy as much folly as vice: it is as easy to be honest as to appear so. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Hatred is nearly always honest - rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

True eyes, too pure and too honest in aught to disguise the sweet soul shining through them. [ Owen Meredith ]

How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. [ Junius ]

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. [ Fielding ]

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. [ Carlyle ]

If all hearts were frank, just, and honest, the major part of the virtues would be useless to us. [ Moliere ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

There are very few things in the world upon which an honest man can repose his soul, or his thoughts. [ Chamfort ]

A man cannot be cheerful and goodnatured unless he is also honest; which is not to be said of sadness. [ Steele ]

Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard. [ Hosea Ballou ]

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. [ Lavater ]

Revenge is a debt, in the paying o( which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. [ Colton ]

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. [ Jane Porter ]

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [ Richelieu ]

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions. [ Rev. Dr. Sharp ]

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. [ Otway ]

There may come a day when there shall be no more curse; in the meantime you must be humble and honest enough to take your share of it. [ John Ruskin ]

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. [ Landor ]

Woman seldom hesitates to sacrifice the honest man who loves her, without pleasing her, to the libertine who pleases her, without loving her. [ A. Ricard ]

A chine of honest bacon would please my appetite more than all the marrowpuddings, for I like them better plain, having a very vulgar stomach. [ Dryden ]

Follies committed by sensible people, extravagances said by clever people, crimes committed by honest people: this is the history of revolutions. [ De Bonald ]

The pride of the heart is the attribute of honest men; pride of manners is that of fools; the pride of birth and rank is often the pride of dupes. [ Duclos ]

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. [ George Washington ]

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty. [ L'Estrange ]

All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers of opinions already printed, we may term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. [ Voltaire ]

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character. [ Shenstone ]

It may be remarked for the comfort of honest poverty that avarice reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recommend them. This is a weed that will grow in a barren soil. [ Hughes ]

Ought or Should? Both of these words, though implying obligation, have different shades of meaning. Ought is the stronger term. Thus a man ought to be honest; he should be neat in his dress. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

The day of life spent in honest and benevolent labor comes in hope to an evening calm and lovely; and though the sun declines, the shadows that he leaves behind are only to curtain the spirit unto rest. [ Henry Giles ]

Trust to me, judicious mother: do not make of your daughter an honest man, as if to give the lie to Nature; make her an honest woman, and be assured that she will be of more worth both to herself and to us. [ Rousseau ]

"No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. [ Scott ]

Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit. And such is the attraction of this fruit, that the most honest woman is not content to die without having tasted it. [ O. Feuillet ]

There are two modes of establishing our reputation - to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will be invariably accompanied by the latter. [ Colton ]

There are two ways of establishing your reputation, - to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will be invariably accompanied by the latter. [ Colton ]

An honest reputation is within the reach of all men; they obtain it by social virtues, and by doing their duty. This kind of reputation, it is true, is neither brilliant nor startling, but it is often the most useful for happiness. [ Duclos ]

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and hollyhock. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The curse and peril of language in our day, and particularly in this country, is that it is at the mercy of men who, instead of being content to use it well according to their honest ignorance, use it ill according to their affected knowledge. [ Richard Grant White ]

There are few souls who are so vigorously organized as to be able to maintain themselves in the calm of a strong resolve: all honest consciences are capable of the generosity of a day, but almost all succumb the next morning under the effort of the sacrifice. [ George Sand ]

There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover. [ Shenstone ]

All the makers of dictionaries, all compilers who do nothing else than repeat backwards and forwards the opinions, the errors, the impostures, and the truths already printed, we may term plagiarists: but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. [ Voltaire ]

Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler - a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hardearned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. [ Paulding ]

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us. [ Pilpay ]

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs: after this period, he takes his share of it with the others. [ Chamfort ]

Yorick sometime?, in his wild way of talking, would say that gravity was an arrant scoundrel, and, he would add, of the most dangerous kind, too, because a sly one; and that he verily believed more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. [ Sterne ]

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public. [ Addison ]

To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success. [ G. A. Sala ]

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]