I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar WildeTags: intelligence self-deprecation
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
EpictetusTags: self-deprecation self-deprecating self-deprecating-humor
One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten, may his bones be worn to nothing'—along with detailed refutations and denunciations by Abraham ibn Ezra and others. These exciting anathemas, of course, ensured that his worrying 'questions' would remain current for as long as the Orthodox commentaries would be read. In this way, rather as when Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' Jewishness contrives irony at its own expense. If there is one characteristic of Jews that I admire, it is that irony is seldom if ever wasted on them.
Christopher HitchensTags: religion atheism self-deprecation irony jews judaism curses heretics maimonides messiah abraham-ibn-ezra hiwi-al-balkhi jewishness orthodox-judaism
Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can remember. This did not prevent him from having opinions on most things in sport.
His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in.
Tags: books 1970 humour autobiography self-deprecation south-africa sport india tennis awards cricket blue-bulls blue-bulls-rugby-union cape-town currie-cup llandudno-cape-town loftus-versfeld-stadium rugby-union wildeklawer-griquas
But it doesn't make sense for you to love me...
Stephenie MeyerTags: self-deprecation
Mine, is a wicked world of pure fascinastion.
Carroll BryantTags: self-deprecation
There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
Carrie FisherTags: humor self-deprecation
After years of self deprecating behavior, I’ve never learned how to properly take a compliment. A part of me wants to argue with him, to tell him there’s nothing special about me.
Brynna GabrielsonTags: self-deprecation compliments
So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.
Sarah DessenTags: humour self-deprecation toilet
The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.
Scruples are alien to the black panther.
Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions.
The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations.
The self-critical jackal does not exist.
The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly
live as they live and are glad of it.
The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos
but in other respects it is light.
There is nothing more animal-like
than a clear conscience
on the third planet of the Sun.
Tags: life experience morality humanity self-deprecation
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