|
"Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about." »Winston Churchill
|
|
"It well becomes a young man to be modest." »Titus Maccius Plautus
|
|
"I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots." »Mark Twain
|
|
"When anyone is modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he is really so." »Richter
|
|
"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility." »William Shakespeare
|
|
"Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend." »Jules Renard
|
|
"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend." »Jules Renard
|
|
"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions." »Confucius
|
|
"The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it." »James Agate
|
|
"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue." »Confucius
|
|
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions." »Confucius
|
|
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." »Confucius
|
|
"Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing." »Paul Theroux
|
|
"This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
|
|
"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast." »Logan Pearsall Smith
|
|
"Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them." »Cervantes
|
|
"Be modest and simple in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race; obey God." »Marcus Aurelius
|
|
"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
|
|
"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." »Edward P. Tryon
|
|
"Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury." »Author Unknown
|
|
"If thou desirest ease in this life, keep thy secrets undisclosed, like the modest rosebud. Take warning from that lovely flower, which, by expanding its hitherto hidden beauties when in full bloom, gives its leaves and its happiness to the winds." »Persian
|
|
"Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem." »William Shakespeare
|
|
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood." »William Shakespeare
|
|
"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)" »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
|
|
"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
|
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
[