Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
And I ask why am I black they say I was born in sin and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
I never learned hate at home or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
In its history Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
The first draught serveth for health the second for pleasure the third for shame and the fourth for madness.
The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.
A great wind swept over the ghetto carrying away shame invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze friendly almost gentle.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.