Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword

Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was — nobody any longer wanted to be that. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Loyalty
category

A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties. – Proverb

Category:
Loyalty

Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, youre getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities. – Charles Tremendous Jones

Category:
Loyalty

Disciples be damned. Its not interesting. Its only the masters that matter. Those who create. – Pablo Picasso

Category:
Loyalty

Ill take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. – Samuel Goldwyn

Category:
Loyalty

Random Quotes

Ive always wanted to be a mom. – Holly Madison

Category:
mom

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. Im on a mission to tell parents that there is a way. – Jenny McCarthy

Category:
Hope

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

Category:
Vanity

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Category:
great