Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers

The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.

Will Rogers

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

Will Rogers

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

Will Rogers

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Rudyard Kipling

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

W. C. Fields

Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)

W. C. Fields

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

Zosia Mamet

I am a private human.

Zola Jesus

I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

William Hazlitt

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

William Hazlitt

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

William Dunbar

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

Wendell Berry

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. We have no choice then but to become its exploiters, and to lose, by consequence, our place in it. It is only when, by humility, openness, generosity, courage, we make ourselves able to relate to it on its terms that it ceases to be alien.

Wendell Berry

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

Wendell Berry

We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Walter Rauschenbusch

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Walden Bello

However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.

Willa Cather

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

Warren Buffett

Exercise humility and restraint.

Wayne Dyer

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

Virginia Woolf

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

William Blackstone

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

William Bernbach

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

William Blake

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

Wendy Wasserstein

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

Wendy Wasserstein

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

Wentworth Miller

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

Wayne Shorter

Your humanity is your instrument.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Wale

Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie

Wallace Stegner

I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

Samuel Richardson

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Samuel Richardson

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.