Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

George Herbert

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Horace Porter

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

Kyle MacLachlan

I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.

I don't think the old model will go away that fast. I think people are pretty stuck on the old models.

John Hull

If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes.

Bill Belichick

I don't think this is the time to go sledding, go out and take on a lot of new projects and model airplanes and all of that.

Jim Leyland

He's more of the show mode than the tell mode.

Irving Kristol

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

Oscar Wilde

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Oscar Wilde

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Margot Asquith

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Pranab Mukherjee

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Pranab Mukherjee

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Noam Chomsky

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

Joe Buck

Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.

Oliver Goldsmith

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Michael Crichton

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

Mark Twain

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

Ozzy Osbourne

I can't do anything in moderation.

Mark Twain

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

Francois Rabelais

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

Chris Matthews

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

Frances E. Willard

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

George Orwell

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

Morena Baccarin

I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows.

Joseph Addison

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Joseph Addison

Virtue which shuns, the day.

The IXY model sold well without steep discounts,

The Lenders One model is completely different than anything we've seen in the industry.

James Thurber

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.