I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
—Oscar Wilde
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Category Archives: Manners
Quote of the Day
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder
Common Nonsense
The sexual revolution is over, and the microbes won.
—P. J. O’Rourke
Stacy McCain has a post up tracing his version of the history of the Sexual Revolution. He has a somewhat different take on the current situation from Mr. O’Rourke.
Read the whole thing.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
—Oscar Wilde
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One should always be a little improbable.
—Oscar Wilde
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
—Charles Caleb Colton
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The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils …
—The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene 1
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Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you—and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
—Billie Holiday
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When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
—Shel Silverstein
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
—Jonathan Swift
Wiser Than Solomon?
Today’s Quote of the Day is from the Book of Proverbs. It got a thumbs-down from Mr. Down Twinkles who apparently feels he is wiser than Solomon.
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Like a madman who throws
Firebrands, arrows and death,
So is the man who deceives his neighbor,
And says, “Was I not joking?”
—Proverbs 26:18, 19
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Oignez vilain, il vous poindra. Poignez vilain, il vous oindra. Anoint a villain, he will stab you; stab a villain, he will anoint you.
—François Rabelais
Post of the Day
The coward wretch whose hand and heart
Can bear to torture aught below,
Is ever first to quail and start
From the slightest pain or equal foe.
—Bertrand Russell
Bonus Quote of the Day
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bonus Quote of the Day
Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
—Carlos Santana
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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
—Jesse Owens
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Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Gaius Iulius Caesar
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It’s better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
—Freeman Dyson
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
—Garrison Keillor
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People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
—Stephen Hawking
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Der Hund bellt und die Karawane geht vorüber. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
—German Proverb
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A hazug embert hamarabb utolérik, mint a sánta kutyát. The liar and the lame dog are quickly caught.
—Hungarian Proverb
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Без кота́ мыша́м раздо́лье. Without a cat mice feel free.
—Russian Proverb
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Τὸ λοιπόν ἀδελφοί ὅσα ἐστὶν ἀληθῆ ὅσα σεμνά ὅσα δίκαια ὅσα ἁγνά ὅσα προσφιλῆ ὅσα εὔφημα εἴ τις ἀρετὴ καὶ εἴ τις ἔπαινος ταῦτα λογίζεσθε Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things.
—Paul the Apostle
