Quotes About Awards

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor.  Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

— Neil Simon

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

— Elbert Hubbard

Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

— Ecclesiasticus 44:1

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

— Max Beerbohm

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

— Jonathan Brown, on Diego Velazquez