Manners Quotes - Page 39

• Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

  Moshe Katsav

  Competition, Well Known, Social

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

  Maria Bethania

  Learning, Branches, Rama

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• I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

  Hiroko Sakai

  Dating, Tables, Table Manners

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• There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country, Garden, Cities

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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• Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

  Rod Laver

  Stars, Kids, Play

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• Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Proud, Imitation

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.366, Wordsworth Editions

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• Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Office, Faithful, Good Man

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• Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.

  Judith Martin

  Believe, Kissing, Missing

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• To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Morning, Philosophy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1041, Manonmani Publishers

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• Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Tests, Aliens, Kind

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Egypt, Grace

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• In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

  Michael Graves

  America, Creative, Liberty

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• Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks.Because the see bether than thay think.

  Kathy Lette

  Men, Thinking, Judging

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• I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Wisdom, Islamic, Learning

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• Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results.

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Love You, Player

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• When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Gratitude, Rights, Justice

  Theodore Dalrymple (2001). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass”, Ivan R Dee

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• To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

  Ovid

  Education, Art, Men

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• The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex (which, since it was a Yale Daily News poll, meant kissing).

  Paul Rudnick

  Sex, Kissing, Yale

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• He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

  Nicolas Bentley

  Wife, Greek, Precious Possessions

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• The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

  George Gilder

  Facts, Moral, Thrilling

  George F. Gilder (1974). “Sexual suicide”

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• Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

  Tom Lehrer

  Nice, Moral, Percentages

  "Song: "Be Prepared"". 1953.

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• A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Girl, Sex, Making Love

  Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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• Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Trying, Assistants, Moral

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• My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Dollars, Fifty, Moral

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• The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.

  Tim Cahill

  Sharks, Knives, Swim

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