Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aesop

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

Aesop

Good things come in small packages.

Aesop

A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.

Richard Lederer

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?

Alexander MacLaren

Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

Alexander Pope

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Albert Schweitzer

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

E. O. Wilson

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.

E. M. Forster

Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed...

E. M. Forster

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

E. M. Forster

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Drew Carey

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Drew Carey

Welcome to 'Who's Line Is It Anyway' the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right the points are just like Canada.

Drew Barrymore

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

Douglas MacArthur

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

Doug Melvin

To toughen up, is to calm down.

Doug Larson

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

Don DeLillo

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

Don Herold

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Amanda Seyfried

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Ann Beattie

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

Anjelica Huston

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Ann Aguirre

Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.

Chuck Palahniuk

If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.

Chubby Checker

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

Christopher Morley

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Christopher Moore

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

Anselm of Canterbury

Disasters teach us humility.

Annie Proulx

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

Anne Bronte

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.