#modest

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #modest




Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.


Nam June Paik


#deny #element #good #half #high-tech

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.


Pol Pot


#leader #modest #people #quite #tell

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.


Tyler Perry


#mystery #wisdom #life

He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.


Margery Williams


#love #modesty #love

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.


Jane Austen


#irony #modesty #musicality #showing-off #music

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.


Bobbe Sommer


#happiness #modesty #opinion #precondition #regard

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.


Joseph Addison


#guard #modesty #only #ornament #virtue

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.


Joseph Addison


#eloquence #every #great #great talent #just

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.


Russell Baker


#age #back #carries #good #had

On their own merits modest men are dumb.


George Colman


#men #merits #modest #own #their