Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

William Howard Taft

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Washington Irving

The oil and wine of merry meeting.

Washington Irving

He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

Walter Lippmann

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

William Feather

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

William Levy

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

Walter Russell

My power will be in humility.

Walter Savage Landor

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Walter Scott

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

Walter Gilbert

Here is a human being; it's me!

Yogi Berra

Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Winifred Holtby

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

Winston Churchill

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Winston Churchill

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

William S. Paley

He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.

William Safire

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

William S. Burroughs

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

William Maxwell

People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

William McDonough

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

Woodrow Wilson

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Saint Augustine

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Saint Augustine

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

Saint Augustine

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

Yanni

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

Wole Soyinka

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

Winston Churchill

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

Wilson Mizner

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

Will Shetterly

Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.

Will Rogers

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

Will Rogers

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.