Quotes about hum
humorous america people
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work. George Mikes
humorous japan united-states
Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.
humorous russia attention
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.
humorous japan resent
The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
humorous rights japan
The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.
humorous soul england
The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.
humorous israel airports
Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.
humorous gay night
If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.
humorous israel tears
Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.
humorous israel insane
'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'
humorous israel language
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
humorous cutting russia
When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".
humility virtue
Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
humorous suffering today
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
humble men done
Good work is not done by 'humble' men G. H. Hardy
humble eye hard-work
Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.
humility eye men
God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst! George Whitefield
humble thinking littles
Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.
humorous air-travel airplanes-and-flying
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. George S. Kaufman
humor savages curious
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. George Saintsbury
humanity outraged
Humanity is outraged in me and with me. George Sand
humanity life-is vain
...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)
humble able difficult
The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it. George S. Patton
humble haughty
Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty. Jefferson Davis
humble government order
We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive. Jeff Miller
humanity world littles
How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world. Jean Piaget
humanity scandal humans
Scandal is only human. Jerry Saltz
humorous phones wish
I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away." Jerry Seinfeld
humorous sadness england
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself. Jerome K. Jerome
humanity democracy violence
The answer to violence is even more democracy. Even more humanity. Jens Stoltenberg
humorous events watches
Go to humorous events at comedy clubs and watch laughable movies. Jeffrey Gitomer
humble trying covering
As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene. Jean-Marc Vallee
humanity pathways evolution
Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity. Jean Houston