(77 quotes found)
“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”
W. C. Fields
“It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”
Charles F. Kettering
“It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.”
Chanakya
“What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name.”
William Shakespeare
“One may survive distress, but not disgrace.”
Scottish Proverb
“It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.”
Benjamin E. Mays
“Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving on one another”
Xenophanes
“Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.”
William Pitt the younger
“Like a dull actor nowI have forgot my part and I am out,Even to a full disgrace.”
“It is disgraceful to stumble against the same stone twice”
Greek proverb