Definition of morals

"morals" in the noun sense

1. moral, lesson

the significance of a story or event

"the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor"

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Quotations for morals

Against good morals.

Dignities change men's morals.

Good manners are part of good morals. [ Whately ]

Bad taste is a species of bad morals. [ Bovee ]

Bad manners are a species of bad morals. [ C. N. Bovee ]

The morals of the world are only casuistry.

No man's religion ever survives his morals. [ South ]

Custom forms us all.
Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief
Are consequences of our place of birth. [ Hill ]

The morals of today are made up of appearances. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness. [ Hosea Ballou ]

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held! [ Wordsworth ]

In morals, as in art, saying is nothing, doing is all. [ Renan ]

Afflictions are in morals what bitters are in medicine. [ French ]

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art. [ Froude ]

In morals good-will is everything, but in art it is ability. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

A straight line is the shortest in morals as well as in geometry. [ Rahel ]

Manners, morals, customs change: the passions are always the same. [ Mme. de Flahaut ]

If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals. [ S. de Bouflers ]

The society of women endangers men's morals and refines their manners. [ Montesquieu ]

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. [ Joubert ]

Nothing seems important to me but so far as it is connected with morals. [ Cecil ]

Can you expect that the mother will teach good morals or others than her own. [ Juv ]

There are some people whose morals are only in the piece: they never make a coat. [ Joubert ]

Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective. [ Rev. Dr. Sharp ]

As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. [ H. W. Shaw ]

He that flatters himself in sciences, and grows worse in morals, makes no improvement. [ Proverb ]

Can one better expiate his sins than by enlisting his experience in the service of morals. [ De Bernard ]

Good-will is everything in morals, but nothing in art; in art, capability alone is anything. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in pleasant garments as well? [ Chamfort ]

We perfectly know what is good, and what is evil, and may be as certain in morals as in mathematics. [ Proverb ]

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. [ Sterne ]

That man has advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. [ Chamfort ]

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals. [ Bryant ]

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [ Seneca ]

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression. [ Jean Paul ]

He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny is either a man of very ill morals or has no more sense and understanding than a child. [ Menander ]

To speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroic virtue. [ Bacon ]

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [ Bacon ]

Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes. [ Plutarch ]

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping. [ Beecher ]

In those countries where the morals are the most dissolute, the language is the most severe; as if they would replace on the lips what has deserted the heart. [ Voltaire ]

A man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach, either of real good breeding or good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute points of fashionable etiquette. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Exaggeration, as to rhetoric, is using a vast force to lift a feather; as to morals and character, it is using falsehood to lift one's self out of the confidence of his fellow-men. [ Hugo Amot ]

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition. [ From the French ]

Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything - morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance. [ Mme. Necker ]

Civilized society feels that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value than the possession of a good chef. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrees, nor an irreproachable private life for a bad dinner and poor wines. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!

Morals are of inestimable value, for every man is born crammed with sin microbes, and the only thing that can extirpate these sin microbes is morals. Now you take a sterilized Christian - I mean, you take the sterilized Christian, for there's only one. Dear sir, I wish you wouldn't look at me like that. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

No woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. They represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the colored. The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability you have merely to take them down to supper. The other women are very charming. They commit one mistake, however. They paint in order to try to look young. Our grandmothers painted in order to try to talk brilliantly. Rouge and esprit used to go together. That has all gone out now. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

morals in Scrabble®

The word morals is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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morals in Words With Friends™

The word morals is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Words within the letters of morals

2 letter words in morals (8 words)

3 letter words in morals (10 words)

4 letter words in morals (12 words)

5 letter words in morals (7 words)

6 letter words in morals (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence morals

Words that start with morals (1 word)

Words with morals in them (1 word)

Words that end with morals (2 words)

Word Growth involving morals

Shorter words in morals

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Longer words containing morals

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