“Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do”
Lord Chesterfield
“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
Albert Einstein
“Bad manners make a journalist.”
Oscar Wilde
“Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity-the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.”
Roger Scruton
“Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.”
Francis Bacon
“If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear”
Benjamin Franklin
“I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.”
James Russell Lowell
