With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. – Otto von Bismarck Category: Manners
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son. – Proverb Category: Manners
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. – Malcolm Bradbury Category: Manners
Our… good Home-brewed Beer — which has been very deservedly called “Liquid Bread,” is preferable to any other Beverage during Dinner or Supper… – William Kitchiner (1775–1827), “Wine,” The Art of Invigorating and Prolong Category: Beer
[T]hings are entirely what they appear to be and behind them… there is nothing. – Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea Category: Philosophical
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. – J. Robert Oppenheimer Category: best
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. – Friedrich Nietzsche Category: good
