Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Kreeft

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

Peter Kreeft

Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

Peter Kreeft

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Pema Chodron

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

Peter Jennings

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

Piers Anthony

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Phyllis Diller

Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty.

Phyllis Diller

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

Phyllis Diller

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

Philip Pullman

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Rabindranath Tagore

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Pitbull

Everything is humble and positive energy.

Maggie Stiefvater

Thery're both iron, isn't that funny?" "Funny haha or funny strange?" James handed them back to me "Funny 'occult'" "Ah. Funny strange" James looked at me sternly, "Don't start that. I'm supposed to be the humorous one

Macklemore

I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.

Haruki Murakami

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

Harlan Ellison

I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

Greg Behrendt

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

John Dryden

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

John Maynard Keynes

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.

John Maynard Keynes

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

John Major

I can't legislate to change human nature.

John Lydon

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

John Locke

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

John Lennon

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

John Lennon

I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.

John le Carre

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Julie Delpy

I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

Judith Martin

What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.