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A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.
A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.
Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best
teach it to dance.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best
teach it to dance.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll read more
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
