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HUMMING-BIRD HUMOR

O be very sure
That no man will learn anything at all,
Unless he first will learn humility.

Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Vanini. L. 327.


One may be humble out of pride.
Montaigne—Of Presumption. Bk. II. Ch.
XVII.


Fairest and best adorned is she
Whose clothing is humility.
Montgomery—Humility.


Nearest the throne itself must be
The footstool of humility.
Montgomery—Humility.


Humility, that low, sweet root,
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Moore—Loves of the Angels. Third Angel's
Story. St. 11.


I was not born for Courts or great affairs;
I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.
 | author = Pope
 | work = Prologue to Satires. L. 268.


Humility is to make a right estimate of one's
self. It is no humility for a man to think less of
himself than he ought, though it might rather
puzzle him to do that.
Spubgeon—Gleanings Among the Sheaves. HuThe higher a man is in grace, the lower he will
be in his own esteem.
Spubgeon—Gleanings Among the Sheaves. The
Right Estimate.


Da locum melioribus.
Give place to your betters.
Terence—Phormio. III. 2. 37.
HUMMING-BIRD
 Jewelled coryphee
With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread.
Ednah Proctor Clarke—Humming-Bird.


Quick as a humming bird is my love,
Dipping into the hearts of flowers—
She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly
Dipping into the flowers of my heart.
James Oppenheim—Quick as a Humming Bird.


And the humming-bird that hung
Like a jewel up among
The tilted honeysuckle horns
They mesmerized and swung
In the palpitating air,
Drowsed with odors strange and rare,
And, with whispered laughter, slipped away
And left him hanging there.
James Whttcomb Rieey—The South Wind
and the Sun.


A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes.
The burnished sunbeams brightening
From flower to flower he flies.
John Banister Tabb—Humming Bird, I
HUMOR
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{{Hoyt quote
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 | text = <poem>Unconscious humor.
Samuel Butler—Life and Habit. (Pub.
1877) Butler claims to have been the
first user of the phrase as a synonym for
dullness.


Humor has justly been regarded as the finest
perfection of poetic genius.
Cablyle—Essays. Schiller.
 I never dare to write
As funny as I can.
Holmes—The Height of the Ridiculous.


Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;
And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 233.


There's the humour of it.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act I. Sc. 1. (Inserted by Theobald from the quarto.)
HUNGER
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Hunger is sharper than the sword.
 | author = Beaumont and Fletcher
 | work = TheHonestMan's
Fortune. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 1.


Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
But be it known to Skin and Bone
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.
John Bybom—Epigram on Two Monopolists.


It is difficult to speak to the belly, because it
has no ears.
Cato the Censor, when the Romans demanded corn. See Plutarch's Life of Cato the
Censor. (gee alg0 R^^g}})
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 | text = <poem>La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
 | author = Cervantes
 | work = Don Quixote.
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{{Hoyt quote
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 | text = <poem>Enough is as good as a feast.
Geobge Chapman—Eastward Ho! Act III.
Sc. 2. Written by Chapman, Jonson,
Marston.


Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum
esse famem, potionis sitim.
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
Cicero—DeFinibusBonorumetMalorum. II.
28.
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{{Hoyt quote
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 | text = Oliver Twist has asked for more.
 | author = Dickens
 | work = Oliver Twist.
 | place = Ch. II.
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{{Hoyt quote
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 | text = <poem>A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.
Health to the Gentlemanly Profession ofSetvinamen. (1598)
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{{Hoyt quote
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 | text = <poem>They that die by famine die by inches.
Matthew Henry—Commentaries, Psalm
LLX.