• Avoid shame but do not seek glory — nothing so expensive as glory.~ Sydney Smith
  • Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.~ Benjamin Franklin
  • Better poor with honor than rich with shame.~ Dutch Proverb
  • Dine with arrogance, sleep with shame.~ Spanish Proverb
  • Gentlemen don’t want to give much and are ashamed to give little.~ Czech Proverb
  • Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.~ Robert Half
  • He who knows not shame does whatever he likes.~ Egyptian Proverb
  • If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.~ Chinese Proverb
  • I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don’t treat me right — shame on you!~ Louis Armstrong
  • It’s not shameful not to know, but it’s shameful not to ask.~ Azerbaijani Proverb
  • It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time.~ P.K. Shaw
  • It is better to die in revenge than to live on in shame.~ Arabian Proverb
  • It is no shame at all to work for money.~ Ghanaian Proverb
  • Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double.~ German Proverb
  • Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.~ George Soros
  • Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.~ English Proverb
  • Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.~ Samuel Johnson
  • Shame is forgotten, debts are not.~ Chinese Proverb
  • Shame is worse than death.~ Russian Proverb
  • Tell a lie on Saturday and you will be ashamed on Sunday.~ Turkish Proverb
  • The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.~ Oscar Wilde
  • There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.~ William Edward Forster
  • The shame you can’t lift away, you had better let lie.~ Norwegian Proverb
  • To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.~ Italian Proverb
  • We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.~ Author Unknown
  • Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.~ Benjamin Franklin
  • Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.~ John Lyly
  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.~ African Proverb
  • Whoever is ashamed to sleep with his wife will never have children.~ Egyptian Proverb
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