Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Kronenberger

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

Louis Farrakhan

I am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And I warn them that these calamities are going to increase now in severity so America might humble herself to that call of God to let the Black man and woman go. It is the time that we should separate to go free and that America should provide us with land and implements that would allow us to build a future for ourselves - for they have proved to be disagreeable to live with in peace.

Liza Minnelli

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

Margaret Smith

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Mark Twain

It is your human environment that makes climate

Mark Twain

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Mark Twain

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

Mark Twain

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Mark Twain

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

Mark Twain

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

Mark Twain

Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

Mark Twain

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

Mark Twain

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mary Robinson

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

Mary Renault

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

Martin Heidegger

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Marquis de Lafayette

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

Nico Tortorella

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

Nicki Minaj

Clap for the heavy weight champ ME But I couldn't do it all alone WE

Nicki Minaj

I don't need to Google myself.

Nick Hornby

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

Mary McCarthy

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

Mark Twain

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

Mark Twain

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

Mark Twain

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

Mark Twain

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Mark Twain

I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.