Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Edmund Wilson

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Edmund Waller

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

Bill Murray

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

Bertolt Brecht

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

Benjamin F. Wade

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

Bernard Baruch

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

Bernard Baruch

Become more humble as the market goes your way.

Cass Gilbert

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

Carolyn Wells

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

C. S. Lewis

And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Jeffrey Williams

We have salvageable patients we are going to lose because we can't get these people out of here. They are human beings, after all.

Elias Canetti

We have no standard any more for anything, ever since human life is no longer the standard.

John Salmons

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

Agnes Repplier

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...

Agnes Repplier

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

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.

Charlie Chaplin

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

Charlie Chaplin

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Charlie Chaplin

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention