Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
Pat Oliphant

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mohandas Gandhi

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
Adam Weishaupt

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Delmore Schwartz

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
Daniel Burnham

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Thomas Browne

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
George Weah

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John Ruskin

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.
Orel Hershiser

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Sophocles

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal