Manners and Ethics

"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing to himself."

Louis Nizer

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

African Proverbs

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down."

Jimmy Durante

Manners and Ethics

Power and Weakness

Success and Fame

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."

Edith Wharton

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat."

P.J. O`Rourke

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."

Robert E. Lee

Manners and Ethics

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."

P.J. O`Rourke

Manners and Ethics

Work and Laziness

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

E.M. Forster

Manners and Ethics

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish."

Carol Green "House M.D." - "Adverse Events"

Egoism

Forgiveness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money."

David Richerby

Manners and Ethics

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

Andrew Carnegie

Manners and Ethics

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out."

Michael Burke

Manners and Ethics

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"People who live outside a society are the ones who can see how it works."

Christopher Rice "A Density of Souls"

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund."

Carol Evertt

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."

William Jennings Bryan

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments."

Walter Benjamin

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."

Francesco Petrarca

Knowledge, Ignorance

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

Winston Churchill

Manners and Ethics

Talent and Genius

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

Manners and Ethics

Success and Fame

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Don't place question mark in the place where God already place a full stop."

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God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."

William Makepeace Thackeray

Good and Evil

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

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Good and Evil

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A good compliment is a truth, but presented in a favorable light."

Kazimierz Matan

Manners and Ethics

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

Dalai Lama

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."

Albert Einstein

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return."

Nicolas Boileau

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide."

F. Scott Fitzgerald "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."

Jean Genet "The Thief's Journal"

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Temptation is the woman's weapon and the man's excuse."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Patience is something that you admire greatly in the driver behind you but not in the one ahead of you."

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Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."

F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"

Egoism

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Habit is stronger than reason."

George Santayana

Intellect, Judgement

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A man may walk intellectually among the stars and grovel morally among the swine."

John A. O'Brien

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Religion, opium for the people. To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom, it promised a reward in an afterlife. And now we are witnessing a transformation. A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death--the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged."

Czeslaw Milosz "Roadside Dog"

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Politics is occupational therapy for the morally handicapped."

Charles J. C. Lyall

Manners and Ethics

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry."

Ernest Gellner

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Food first, then morality."

Bertolt Brecht "The Threepenny Opera"

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Morality is contraband in war."

Mahatma Gandhi "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Manners and Ethics

Peace and War

Rating: 7.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

Zig Ziglar

God and Religion

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men give love to get sex, Women give sex to get love."

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Love

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Marble Faun"

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Style is the image of character."

Edward Gibbon "Memoirs of my Life"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here."

Edward Abbey

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Manners are noises you don't make while eating soup."

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Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Anita Brookner

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality."

William Hazlitt "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)