Manners Quotes - Page 40

• It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Doe, Fool

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• Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

  Russell Baker

  Grease, Together, Moral

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• The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

  Lauren Bacall

  Order, Things In Life, Moral

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• Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

  Sam Levenson

  Doe, Three, Stories

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

  W. C. Fields

  People, Knack, Moral

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• Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.

  B. C. Forbes

  People, Moral, Methodical

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• Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Girl, Blue, Jeans

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• Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hard Work, Genius, Moral

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• I love men's clothes, but that doesn't make me a weirdo.

  Margaux Hemingway

  Men, Clothes, Moral

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• The early worm deserves the bird.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Bird, Moral, Worms

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• He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

  Texas Guinan

  Orchids, Moral, Graves

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• I was born modest, but it didn't last.

  Mark Twain

  Lasts, Moral, Born

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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• As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Feelings, Teeth

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• It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

  Red Smith

  Running, Boys, Men

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• Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

  H. Allen Smith

  Mean, Moral, Handle

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• A great social reformer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Moral, Social, Reformers

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• I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Moral, Anxious

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

  Edmond Rostand

  Moral, Pleasure, Hated

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• Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Honesty, Would Be, Reputation

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• And where does she find them?

  Dorothy Parker

  Doe, Moral

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

  Dick Gregory

  People, Moral, Cork

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• What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

  William Saroyan

  Children, People, Special

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• The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

  Peter De Vries

  People, May, Firsts

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• Association with women is the basis of good manners.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Good Man, Association

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• Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Poetry, Style

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.279, Delphi Classics

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