Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Greg Jackson

Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

Greg Lake

Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

Martin Heidegger

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Marquis de Lafayette

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

Nico Tortorella

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

Nicki Minaj

Clap for the heavy weight champ ME But I couldn't do it all alone WE

Nicki Minaj

I don't need to Google myself.

Nick Hornby

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

Mary McCarthy

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

Mark Twain

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

Mark Twain

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

Mark Twain

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

Mark Twain

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Mark Twain

I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

Mark Twain

But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

Mark Twain

... all the modern inconveniences ...

Mark Twain

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

Mark Twain

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

Mark Twain

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

Mark Twain

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

Nicholas Stoller

Maybe I'm just not that humble but our script is awesome. Like Jason is so into the Muppets and such a fan. I'm such a fan of Muppets.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today’s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole.

Muhammad Ali

I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.

Muhammad Ali

Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.

Muhammad Ali

Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love

Mikhail Bakunin

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.