Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victoria Clark

Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.

Victoria Beckham

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way.

Victor Kiam

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Victor Davis Hanson

Ancient wisdom: deal in personal trust; your word is your bond; avoid extremes; treat the money you invest for others as something sacred; don't take any more perks than you would wish others to take; don't borrow what you couldn't suddenly pay back; imagine the worse case financial scenario and expect it very may well happen; the wealthier you become the more humble you should act.

Victor Hugo

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Victor Borge

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Vernor Vinge

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

Robert Frost

An idea is a feat of association.

Robert Fulghum

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Robert Benchley

If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

Robert Benchley

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Rita Rudner

Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.

Rita Rudner

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

Rita Mae Brown

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

Rick Moody

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

Rene Descartes

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Thornton Wilder

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

Thomas Nagel

Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

Thomas More

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

Thomas Huxley

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.

Thomas Huxley

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Timothy Leary

Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.

Thomas S. Monson

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

Thomas Reed

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Richard Leakey

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.

Richard Louv

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

Richard M. Nixon

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Richard Schickel

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

Richard G. Scott

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Rich Mullins

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

Robert Crumb

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

Richard Rohr

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Richard Rohr

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.