Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Ernest Hemingway

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Erwin McManus

In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

Erwin McManus

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

Erykah Badu

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Erykah Badu

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

Erma Bombeck

One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other..

Erma Bombeck

A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.

Erma Bombeck

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

Erma Bombeck

I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.

Erma Bombeck

We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)

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.

George Eliot

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

George Eliot

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

Gina Carano

Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.