A Quote by Pericles

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

Pericles

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Pericles
Greek - Statesman
495 BC - 429 BC

All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community.

Adolf Hitler

It is better for a youth to earn living selling pakodas instead of being unemployed. Making pakodas is not shameful; what is shameful is comparing such a person with a beggar.

Amit Shah

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

Mark Twain

Losing 7-1 at home is a shameful thing.

Hulk

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

Philip Jose Farmer

Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do not say, "I am the son of a rich man. It is shameful for me to be in poverty." Christ, your Heavenly Father, Who gave birth to you in the baptistery, is not in worldly riches. Rather he walked in poverty and had nowhere to lay His head.

Gennadius of Constantinople

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

Marcus Aurelius

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Blaise Pascal

I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.

Adolf Hitler

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

George Farquhar

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

Henry Miller

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

Ron Chernow

Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. … Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

Isocrates

Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find your parents shameful.

Seo Won

Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

Plato

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