“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
Confucius
“A prophetic word will come to pass if you step out in faith without a shred of doubt.”
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“Water the seeds by the Word of God and that will pump off the weeds in your life.”
““Never defend yourself of words from a fool unless you are willing to become his/her equal.””
Gene Crawford
“Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”
Jonathan Swift
“So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning”
John Ashbery