Famous quotes containing the words modest and/or apology:
“But grant, the virtues of a temp’rate prime
Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
An age that melts with unperceived decay,
And glides in modest Innocence away;”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“It’s no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.”
—Lester Cole (1904–1985)