He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

It isn't false modesty when I say this but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are abused the law itself is influenced by gold and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787 but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry in great plainness of living in exact modesty of dress.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

To not be modest about it you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity modesty and humility a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Be modest humble simple. Control your anger.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about and were.

No sex age or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.