Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Baltasar Gracian

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Paul Handley

Mutual respect and courtesy is one of the things that holds this vague organization together and that is in short supply.

Fat Joe

I feel so safe tonight with all of this police protection courtesy of G-Unit,

Proverbs

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.

V. Lucas

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

Saint Basil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Mick Leary

We've given Craig the courtesy of talking to him at a later date.

Lawrence Bender

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

Marsha Blackburn

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

Albert Einstein

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Rashad Bobino

If A equals B and B equals C, then you can do the math.

Charlotte Rampling

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

Danny Meyer

One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.

Joni Vaughan

When you give a team like Crowley six runs, and you only have four hits, that equals a loss.

Ed Goren

Translation: Volume equals a seven-game series. ''Get us to Game 7 and we'll be in the ballpark. The last two Octobers, Fox has been the No. 1 network and we did it on the back of baseball.

Martin H. Fischer

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Charles Dickens

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

Charles Dickens

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Charles Spurgeon

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

Richard G. Scott

To be humble is to be teachable.

Ricky Gervais

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.

Djuna Barnes

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

Djuna Barnes

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

David Krumholtz

It was a frying-pan-to-the-face moment for me where I had to get humble and really cherish it. I was really sad when [Numbers] was over. I'll just say that. Really sad.

David Dewhurst

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.