(145 quotes found)
“He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.”
Danish Proverb
“Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
Will Rogers
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
Albert Einstein
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good”
Seneca
“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
“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 of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
Will Smith
