A person should not proverb

 A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
  Chanakya

 Jim is a real honest guy. I knew I deserved to be on the team, but I couldn't be mad because he was honest about the situation. You don't always find people like that in baseball. He's just a really decent person.

 A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person who's going to turn something in. But people are honest. They really are.

 For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
  Thora Birch

 The basic problem is that DRM is trying to keep honest people honest. With Napster out there, that's not good enough. It only takes one person to break the encryption, and then the encumbered version is competing with the unencumbered version on Napster.

 Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission
  Thomas Jefferson

 I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.

 Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

 To be honest with you, I'm going to be the same guy, whether people like it or not. It's the way I am. I'm going to tell the media what I think. I'm not going to lie to them. I'm going to be honest. Nobody is going to make me change.

 Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
  L. Ron Hubbard

 He was an extremely modest person, one of the humblest people I knew, although some people might not think so. He could be rude, but what struck me about him was that he was the most honest person I ever met. He told you exactly how he felt. There was no BS, no editing, for sure.

 Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.

 be honest with the Congress, be honest with the American people.

 [The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.

 It's only ugly in the eyes of the beholder. We guard, and if you ask anybody who plays us, we keep you honest. When you are patient and make people be honest, I guess that's ugly in this day and age.


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