Douglas Horton Quotes

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

Mr. Van Buren is the most fallen man I have ever known.

A man who is dishonored is considered dead.

Getting kicked out of Cube has tarnished my reputation and disgraced myself.

This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway, oh no, this is the road to hell.

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

We know we are falling from grace, millennium.

When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

The higher up, the harder the fall.

Everyone crashes Some get back on Some don't Some can't.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

We're man enough to step in there and fight our hearts out and you have to be man enough to deal with a loss.

I realize that as quick as you go up, you can really come down that quick. And we've seen it happen with others.