Breakfast Quote by Helen Rowland

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

— Robert E. Howard

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

— Benjamin Rush

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

— Benjamin Franklin

...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...

— Nikolai Gogol

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

— Cullen Hightower

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

— Thomas Malthus

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

— Wilkie Collins

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to…

— Plutarch

Wives are funny creatures. They don`t have sex with their husbands for weeks and then they want to kill the woman who does.

— Nikhil Saluja

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

— George Eliot

Husbands and wives are equal partners. They have different but complementary responsibilities.

— Quentin L. Cook