Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

H. G. Wells

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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.

George Herbert

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

George Herbert

Humble Hearts have humble desires.

Georg Buchner

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

Georg Brandes

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Jerry Bridges

The fruit of the Spirit is fundamentally relational. Rather than originating with us, it flows to us from our union with Christ, and it flows beyond us to bring us into fellowship with others. The secret of this flow - and our unity with God and others - is humility.

Jennifer Aniston

Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

Graham Swift

There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.

Gertrude Stein

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Francis Quarles

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

Francis Quarles

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

Hugh Laurie

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Horatio Nelson

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Homer

Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

Noam Chomsky

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.