humility Quotes

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour.

One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.

If you want a good life, don't succeed at anything too early or too well. And don't choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you're finished.