- 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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