Humoring Quotes

#1. Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Mark Twain

#2. Anna gave me a humoring smile. Everyone eventually falls for the two of you together. You're meant to be.

S.C. Stephens

#3. Come here often?' I asked instead, humoring no one but myself. So it was totally worth it.

Darynda Jones

#4. You spooks got a twisted sense of humor, you know that?" "Maybe," said Jones, getting to his feet. "But you know what we don't have?" "What's that?" Rex said, humoring him. "Women disrobing publicly without a shred of embarrassment," he said, nodding toward the front door.

David Welch

#5. Would you humor me for a moment?"
"I believe I've been humoring you since you walked through my front door," he replied.
She smiled. "Just for a moment.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#6. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.

Mother Teresa

#8. I thought I was bothering you," she said. "I thought you were just humoring me.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. Amber was busy flirting with a rookie named Dead Meat if he didn't stop flirting back. She was eleven, for heaven's sake! Of course, he may have just been humoring her. And it was a little cute. In a gross, Chester-the-molester kind of way.

Darynda Jones

#10. My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.

Busy Philipps

#11. This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

Derek Thompson

#12. When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.

James Arthur

#13. A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

John Cornyn

#14. Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

Terry Bradshaw

#15. Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

Tom DeMarco

#16. Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

Arthur Balfour