The World Motivation
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
“My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.”
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
England expects that every man will do his duty.
Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
I learned from Linus Pauling it's not a disgrace in science to publish something that's wrong. What's bad is to publish something that's not very interesting.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
As a country, we can't teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that's - that's a disgrace.