Decorous Quotes

11 quotes by 9 authors

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically… — Edmund Pellegrino
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when… — Janis Joplin
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do… — Jacob Bronowski
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A… — Charles Dickens
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… — Angela Carter
Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering,… — William Faulkner
Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous,… — Gail Carriger
The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been… — Margaret Mitchell
Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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