Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.
The United States is primarily a guilt-based culture. The dominant method of social control in this country involves teaching people to feel guilt about not living up to personal expectations. Contrast this with shame-based cultures like Japan. As re...
Better be in debt than in shame.
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Old sins, new shame.
Shameful deeds bring on revenge.
Dine with arrogance, sleep with shame.
Who fears no shame comes to no honor.
Poverty is no shame -- but is no great honor either.
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
He who has the necessities has no shame.
Shame lasts longer than poverty.
To ask is a temporary shame; not to ask, an eternal one.
All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humani...
Common sense hides shame.
It's an ill cause that a lawyer thinks shame of.
Knowing what I do now, I think about shame and worthiness in this way: 'It's the album, not the picture.' If you imagine opening up a photo album, and many of the pages are full eight-by-ten photos of shaming events, you'll close that album and walk ...
We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.
It is better to die in revenge than to live on in shame.
Better poor with honor than rich with shame.
