Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Charles Dickens

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

Charles Spurgeon

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

Charles Spurgeon

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

Akira Kurosawa

The truth is in the mystery.

Chelsea Peretti

I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world....

Chuck English

When it comes right down to it, it's our guests who have the largest say in the determination.

Martha Stewart

(She) also (said) that she wanted me to be one of the first guests on her show.

Peter Dunn

We have a number of guests who want to come here more often but hesitate because they are appropriately sensitive to managing their calorie intake,

Smith Thammasaroj

Several hotel guests have complained to me that they have seen no map, no signs, not even a brochure on what to do if a tsunami occurs. People who sleep in the rooms will not hear the warning from sirens if the hotel has not installed a warning system in their rooms.

Jim Williams

So far, the response from guests about this technology has been very positive.

Tom Colicchio

Right now I am kicking around an idea to do a web talk show on a boat. Guests would come on and go fishing with me. I would like to take people who have never fished: You get them out on the water and they really open up.

A. E. Housman

Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.

Bill Warren

I don't have permission from the guests to release any information.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Eliza Haywood

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

Bernard Meltzer

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.