Manners and Ethics

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours."

Voltaire

Manners and Ethics

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."

William Somerset Maugham "A Writer's Notebook"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen letter to sister Cassandra

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy."

Steve Martin

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Forgiveness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men."

Voltaire

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."

Graham Greene "A Sort of Life"

Manners and Ethics

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners."

George Bernard Shaw

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire to receive even greater benefits."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself."

Joseph Joubert

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"I believe that the best way to prepare fore for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom."

Albert Einstein

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function."

Robert A. Heinlein

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse."

Jonathan Swift

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother."

Guy de Maupassant "Boule de Suif"

Love

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."

Socrates

Anger

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."

Michel de Montaigne

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation - the other eight are unimportant."

Henry Miller

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Nothing is given so profusely as advice."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Egoism

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."

Albert Einstein

Intellect, Judgement

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

Immanuel Kant

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Prejudice is an opinion without judgement."

Voltaire "Philosophical Dictionary"

Intellect, Judgement

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Manners and Ethics

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

Aldous Huxley

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country."

Samuel Butler

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)