(139 quotes found)
“He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.”
Danish Proverb
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good”
Seneca
“Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
Will Rogers
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is much to be done for yourself, your family, your relations, and your country”
Benjamin Franklin
“Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.”
William Faulkner
“So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
Will Smith
“Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; / Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, / But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: / Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.”
Bible
“Madam, I may not call you; mistress I am ashamed to call you; and so I know not what to call you; but howsoever, I thank you.”
Elizabeth I
“We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.”
Charles Horton Cooley
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