Quotes with morals

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  • Robert E. Lee My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Isaac Asimov Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Thomas Hardy Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Laurence Sterne One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Laurence Sterne Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Edna Ferber Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrées, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things à la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Raymond Chandler Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Horace Mann Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Noel Coward The higher the building the lower the morals.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Barney Frank The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
    KUOW.org audio program (7 September 2005) (RealAudio)
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Samuel Johnson They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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