#manners

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. ↗

— Tim Gunn

#manners #art

There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness. ↗

— Judith Martin

#community #family #miss-manners #relationships #age

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

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It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#politeness #rudeness #life

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#knowledge #manners #medical #medicine #morals

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#character #excellence #manners #simplicity #style

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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