An empty sack cannot stand upright. [ Proverb ]

And what is reason? Be she thus defined:
Reason is upright stature in the soul. [ Young ]

Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. [ William Shakespeare ]

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way. [ Bible ]

He's a hot shot in a mustard pot, with his heels upright. [ Proverb ]

Upright, whether in prosperous or in critical circumstances. [ Motto ]

He that scoffs at the crooked had need go very upright himself. [ Proverb ]

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. [ Bible ]

Poverty destroys pride. It is difficult for an empty bag to stand upright. [ A. Dumas fils ]

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [ Cicero ]

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. [ Ovid ]

The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. [ Gottfried von Strassburg ]

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. [ Colton ]

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one: society does not exist on moral ideas only. [ Balzac ]

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. [ Cicero ]

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 ]