Moral Lesson Sayings

#1. [ ... ] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren't the center of the universe. That others weren't created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity and understanding.

William Deresiewicz

#2. When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Horace

#3. Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say ::

2109 fellow Goodreaders [can't be wrong] gave [King Lear] 1 star. Many call it boring. Some even say it is predictable and has no moral lesson. That these people have the right to vote and to procreate is frightening to me.

Nathan "N.R." Gaddis

#4. During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly larger doses.

Theda Bara

#5. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

Joan Didion

#6. For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.

Harold Ramis

#7. Here indeed is a major difference between people and ants: where we send our young men to war, ants send their old ladies. No moral lesson there, unless you are looking for a less expensive form of elder care.

Edward O. Wilson

#8. If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Oscar Wilde

#9. He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

John Irving

#10. A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

#11. The only moral lesson which is suited for a child
the most important lesson for every time of life
is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#12. Elizabeth waited until he had left and then promptly burst into laughter. She couldn't help it, she had been soaked, threatened by a skunk, attacked by a dog and now given a moral lesson by a man that had threatened her with a Winchester earlier.
She couldn't remember ever having a better day.

Grace Willows

#13. The rest of us learned the simple lesson - invaluable in a bureaucratic society - that there is no moral or practical obligation to tell the truth when filling in forms.

Auberon Waugh

#14. I don't read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

Bauvard

#15. No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

Peter Kreeft

#16. I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.

Lincoln Hall

#17. They call me the Angel of Death.

Moira Young

#18. I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

John Searles

#19. Stories carry things. A lesson or moral. Information or a take-home message.

Jonah Berger

#20. Here's to the man
Who owns the land
That bears the grapes
That makes the wine
That tastes as good
As this does.

Omar Khayyam

#21. I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

Claire Coffee

#22. She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have

Jane Austen

#23. It's the most beautiful thing in the world." he says, "I just ... " He pauses and looks back into the fire. "I just kept walking. Wrapped in this white nothingness.

Carrie Ryan

#24. You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

Christina Ricci

#25. I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.

Susan Wiggs

#26. Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

Yvon Chouinard

#27. Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

Spike Lee

#28. Climbing is definitely very much strength-to-weight ratio. At the same time, I've never dieted or restricted calories. You're just sort of mindful about not getting plump.

Alex Honnold

#29. Those who live for one another learn that love is the bond of perfect unity.

Frank Fools Crow

#30. nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed.

Mark Kurlansky

#31. When we left, the sun was taking its evening dip, slipping down into the ocean inch by inch like a fat woman afraid of the water.

Budd Schulberg

#32. Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.

Sydney J. Harris

#33. And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed:
Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye,
And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.

Mary Howitt

#34. The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back to a lesson that it wants to shirk.

C.S. Lewis

#35. Jatred's white teeth flashed in an inviting smirk. To irritate the men even more, he motioned to them with his hand, ending the movement with a flip of his middle finger.
"Come and get it, grandpas," he hissed.

A.O. Peart

#36. Love is such a thing. You have knowledge of what it is, but it defies careful explication."
"Love is a subtle concept," I admitted. "It's elusive, like justice, but it can be defined.

Patrick Rothfuss