It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
—P. G. Wodehouse
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Category Archives: Manners
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
—Robert A. Heinlein
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You should not throw a pie that’s in a pan.
—Soupy Sales
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Nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. No one is so old that he does not think it possible to live another year.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Age” is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
—Martha Graham
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
—Malcolm Muggeridge
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art … It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
—C. S. Lewis
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Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
—John Petit-Senn
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Wit is educated insolence.
—Aristotle
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Your pie hole is for pie, not politics.
—David Burge
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
—Mel Brooks
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
—H. L. Mencken
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
—Indira Gandhi
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
—Voltaire
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Don’t be humble … you’re not that great.
—Golda Meir
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Why is it there are so many more horses’ asses than there are horses?
—G. Gordon Liddy
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
—P. J. O’Rourke
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
—Ayn Rand
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
—Niccolo Machiavelli
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
—Augustine of Hippo
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
—Oscar Wilde
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
—Oscar Wilde
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Class is real. It can’t be faked.
—Ann Landers