Humorous Sayings

5,479 sayings found from the Modern era

I've always objected to doing anything over again if I had already done it once.

— Grace Hopper Unknown
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The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

— Grace Hopper Unknown
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I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say, 'We've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours.

— Grace Hopper Unknown (found in collections of her sayings)
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If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

— Grace Hopper Unknown
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I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

— Grace Hopper Unknown
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Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.

— Martin Luther King Jr. Approx. 1930s
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It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

— Martin Luther King Jr. Undated, but widely attributed.
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We have guided missiles and misguided men.

— Martin Luther King Jr. Undated, but widely attributed.
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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

— Martin Luther King Jr. Undated, but widely attributed.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

— Martin Luther King Jr. Undated, but widely attributed.
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You know every Napoleon has his Waterloo. I'm like Napoleon. I'm at my Waterloo, and I'm on my knees.

— Martin Luther King Jr. 1952
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That's absurd. You don't even know me.

— Martin Luther King Jr. 1952
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Uh yes um what is it my brother? Why we need to protest the radio station?

— Martin Luther King Jr. Undated anecdote
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I am proud to be maladjusted and wish all men of goodwill would be maladjusted until the good society is realized.

— Martin Luther King Jr. March 17, 1966
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We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

— Martin Luther King Jr. March 31, 1968
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He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) c. 1926-1927
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There are no hopeless situations, there are desperate people. I have never lost hope.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Undated
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Religions have been basis of the tyranny of kings and sultans.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Undated
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Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Undated
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(No direct quotes found that are genuinely funny, witty, absurd, or unintentionally comedic and can be reliably verified. Historical accounts suggest he was a stoic and ceremonial figure, with few documented personal remarks.)

— Meiji Emperor N/A
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