Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fat Joe

Thanks for all the police protection -- courtesy of G-Unit.

H. Hunt

The winner of the Prince and Princess of the Patch will each receive a $50 savings bond, courtesy of Bancroft State Bank.

Baltasar Gracian

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Wang Yusheng

Courtesy demands reciprocity and this is essential in relations between countries.

Proverbs

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.

Frank Rogers

At this point the courtesy ride ended. Makes you wonder what some people are thinking.

Benjamin Franklin

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

V. Lucas

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

Latin Proverb

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions

Richard Adams

There was just one woman. So she was just given a hard time, teased and not shown the respect of equals that she should have had.

Woodrow Wilson

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Cassie Johnson

We like to think of ourselves as equals out there. Our philosophy is simple ? be patient on the ice and have fun.

Roger McCarthy

Between the town and the resort, it really is a one-plus-one equals five relationship. I think that's why the relationship has to be symbiotic, and focused on the whole.

Ed Goren

Translation: Volume equals a seven-game series. ''Get us to Game 7 and we'll be in the ballpark. The last two Octobers, Fox has been the No. 1 network and we did it on the back of baseball.

Jess Grimes

We were lazy. We didn't come out ready to play, and Elco obviously did. Lazy feet equals goals for the other team.

Marsha Blackburn

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

Albert Einstein

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Charles Dickens

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Charles Spurgeon

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

Alan Watts

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Alan Hansen

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

Chinua Achebe

Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

Edward Gibbon

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.

Edward Gibbon

The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest and humble; but their persons were sacred and inviolable. Their force was suited rather for opposition than for action. They were instituted to defend the oppressed, to pardon offences, to arraign the enemies of the people, and, when they judged it necessary, to stop, by a single word, the whole machine of government.