Famous quotes containing the words shame and/or culture:
“A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:4.
“The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)