A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella. —Dick Clark More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. —Colette More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. —Bill Nye More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. —A. Whitney Brown More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It well becomes a young man to be modest. —Titus Maccius Plautus More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. —Madam Guizot More about this quote Tags: truth knowledge humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: humility goodness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great? —Kanye West More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. —Jules Renard More about this quote Tags: humility pride Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden. —Jerry Van Amerongen More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humility is no substitute for a good personality. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. —Edith Sitwell More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email