Quotes
Quotes about Disgrace
Few sons attain the praise
Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace.
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.
Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.
The Mischievous Dog A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace. One day an old hound said to him: Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog. Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
The Thief and His Mother A boy stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to his Mother. She not only abstained from beating him, but encouraged him. He next time stole a cloak and brought it to her, and she again commended him. The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value. At last he was caught in the very act, and having his hands bound behind him, was led away to the place of public execution. His Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast in sorrow, whereupon the young man said, I wish to say something to my Mother in her ear. She came close to him, and he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off. The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied, Ah! if you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus led to a disgraceful death.
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one." [Lat., Odiosum est enim, cum a praetereuntibus dicatur:--O domus antiqua, heu, quam dispari dominare domino.]
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise, I court no favor, ask no place, For such preferment is disgrace.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena, Nel delitto e la infamia.]
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.]
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia; Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.]
And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet?
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. [Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit; Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe Absterrent vitiis.]
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.
