Dignity Quote by Ronald Knox Download Open image “Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.” — Ronald Knox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dignity Funny Humor Man Only Respect Therefore
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of mans superiority to all that befalls him. — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“Laughter is a divine gift to the human who is humble. A proud man cannot laugh because he must watch his dignity; he cannot… — C.J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
“Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun"… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
“It is possible to argue that the true business of faith is not to produce emotional conviction in us, but to teach us to… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a… — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Copy Share Image
I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
