(57 quotes found)
“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”
William Shakespeare
“Realize that when you get older, you either get senile or become gracious. There's no in-between. You become senile when you think the world short-changed you, or everybody wakes up to screw you. You become gracious when you realize that you have something the world needs, and people are happy to see you when you come into the room.”
Carlos Santana
“Give even an onion graciously”
Afghan Proverb
“Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.”
Jessica Mitford
“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.”
Isaac Newton
“Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth”
William McKinley
“To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.”
Publilius Syrus
“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires.”
John Newton
“Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.”
Charles Hole
“Look at the names in the Jackie Robinson Wing, ... Steve Young, Dorothy Hamill. The Jackie Robinson Wing. Goodness gracious . . .That's top shelf.”
Calvin Murphy