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Humor: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 34.

One may be humble out of pride.— MONTAIGNE — Of Presumption. Bk. II. Ch. XVII.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.— MONTGOMERY — Humility.

Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility.— MONTGOMERY- — Humility.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.— MOORE — Loves of the Angels.

Third Angel's Story. St. 11. I was not born for Courts or great affairs; pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs. S.— POPE — Prologue to Satires. L. 268.

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.— SCOTT — Waverley. Ch. XIII.

It is the witness still of excellency To put a strange face on his own perfection.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 48,

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a mar. to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.— SPURGEON — Gleanings Among the

Sheaves. Humility. The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.— SPURGEON — Gleanings Among the

Sheaves. The Right Estimate.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.— CARLYLE — Essays. Schiller.

I never dare to write As funny as I can.— O. W. HOLMES — The Height of the

Ridiculous. Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh; And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 233

A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. aa.— ANONYMOUS