Khalil Gibran Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

• The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Law, Bird

• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Land, People

• For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

  Khalil Gibran

  Cells, Honor, Gold

• Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

  Khalil Gibran

  Respect, Flower, Mean

• The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dwelling Place, Wings, Bird

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