It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but… — William Greider Copy Share Image
People are brought up to think, "It's nice to be modest. It's nice to hide your light under a bushel." Well, bullshit!… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and… — Fumiko Enchi Copy Share Image
The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues -… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest. — Claudia Roden Copy Share Image
The date is not important. The age is not important. Time is not important. Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite! — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
