Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldnt say.

Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything but warned near it.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

The average sparrow is somethiing of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

My life is happy, joyous, free, sober and saved, and a lot of fun, too. I have a lot of fun.

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you knew.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.

Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.

I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.

Whenever you can relate to the population of the team that you play for, I think it makes it that much more special.

I don't want to be a reality retro star.