Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express… — Horace Copy Share Image
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“For manners, whether in the court or at the dinner table, are simply love in the little things, love in the trifles.” — Joe Rigney 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
The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Dorian Cox Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
