The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. – Malcolm Bradbury Category: Manners
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – St. Basil Category: Manners
I can be very polite, but Ive found that doesnt always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. – Joy Baluch Category: Manners
I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. – John Maynard Keynes Category: Conservatism
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. – Frederick Douglass Category: Freedom
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? – Patrick Henry Category: Gun Control