Quotes of Demure - somelinesforyou

“ I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest. ”

- Nicholas Negroponte

“ It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. ”

- Jules Renard

“ Miss Child is never bashful with butter. ”

- Phil Donahue

“ Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. ”

- John Milton

“ Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat. ”

- Don Marquis

“ The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ It well becomes a young man to be modest. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ Zealous, not modest. ”

- James Beattie

“ It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ Retiring is getting ready to die. ”

- Rodger Ward

“ I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest. ”

- Nicholas Negroponte

“ It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. ”

- Jules Renard

“ Miss Child is never bashful with butter. ”

- Phil Donahue

“ Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. ”

- John Milton

“ Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat. ”

- Don Marquis

“ The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ It well becomes a young man to be modest. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ Zealous, not modest. ”

- James Beattie

“ It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ Retiring is getting ready to die. ”

- Rodger Ward
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