Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup. – Bennett Cerf Category: Civilization
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis Category: Civilization
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Civilization
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History Category: Civilization
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our familys subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father. – Charles Kuralt Category: Family
More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. – Charles Francis Adams Category: Presidents Day