Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

—Jewish Proverb

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

—Jewish Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

—Jewish Proverb

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

—Jewish Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.

—Jewish Proverb

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

—H. L. Mencken

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

—Ben Jonson

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

—Leonardo da Vinci

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

—George Bernard Shaw

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

—Socrates