Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in texting while dining, sending one-word e-mails in lieu of formal thank-you cards, wearing shorts to the theater, or… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts… — Gurney Williams Copy Share Image
I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man's look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement,… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Well, you mind you manners and don't raise your voice. You know what your mamma used to say. Any book is a… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do -… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
We are working hard to ensure every child fulfils their potential and goes on to seize all the opportunities life can offer… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
Yeah bro that is the way to talk to that Donkey, that Jackass. Disrespecting our Sisters like that, he learn that from… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal,… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I like to give my kids the life I didn't have - they go to an excellent school; they have nice clothes,… — Joe Calzaghe Copy Share Image
Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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