(54 quotes found)
“Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.”
George Bernard Shaw
“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”
Bill Cosby
“If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick”
Mark Twain
“Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”
“Whatever you want in your life, the key to your success is to transform your thinking, emotions and behaviour!”
Patrick Driessen
“There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Always obey your parents - when they are present.”
“I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.”
Gerard Way
“The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.”
Mae West
“I have been critical of certain statements and particular behaviour by some,”
Mr Howard