Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erma Bombeck

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

Erma Bombeck

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

Florenz Ziegfeld

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

Fisher Stevens

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

Flip Wilson

Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

Flann O'Brien

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

Flannery O'Connor

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

Flannery O'Connor

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Ferran Adria

Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

Henning Mankell

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

Henri Bergson

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Human faces are such a world!

Henri Frederic Amiel

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

Henri Frederic Amiel

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Helen Keller

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

Cat Stevens

Communal well-being is central to human life.

Catharine Beecher

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and schoo1 to be still more undervalued and shunned.

Cassandra Clare

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

Gary Larson

I never liked my own species.

Frederick William Robertson

A heart renewed--a loving heart--a penitent and humble heart--a heart broken and contrite, purified by love--that and only that is the rest of men. Spotlessness may do for angels, repentance unto life is the highest that belongs to man.

Freeman Dyson

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

Freeman Dyson

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Fred Brooks

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

Fred Brooks

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.

Franz Kafka

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Franz Kafka

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

Eoin Colfer

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Emily VanCamp

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Elvis Costello

I find humming is very useful.

Elon Musk

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

Jasper Fforde

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.