Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Agnes Repplier

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

Abba Eban

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Aaron Swartz

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Alan Thicke

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

Alan Thicke

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

Alan K. Simpson

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Charlie Haden

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Edward Abbey

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Edward Abbey

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Edward Abbey

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

Aristotle

Wit is cultured insolence.

Aristotle

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Ben Harper

Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

She interpreted the dog's paws as human hands, which spelt out Praise and Worship in Signs.

Merrick had a sense of humor and could joke about his condition.

Merely writing about him was unusual, but writing a profile, as if he were a human being, was groundbreaking.

Irene Khan

Mexico has taken a very strong and positive stand on human rights issues internationally but there is not the same intensity ... domestically,

Kofi Annan

Mexico has made some strides (on human rights) ... but there is still some way to go,

Who knows? I just know that he's a very big human being.

Arlen Specter

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,

I think this is a legislative sense of humor the rest of us don't appreciate.

Sarah Kane

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

I'm humbled that it comes from our country's and our continent's youth.

We've thought about it. It's human nature. I'm not going to lie about it. But we know we have to get by this game.

Bill Cosby

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

We must show humility and be humble, ... And we must turn away from ways that are unpleasing to God.

We have all been moved by the human tragedies that have occurred to our neighbours in the southern United States.

We have all been humbled by Hurricane Katrina,

Thornton Wilder

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.