You've heard I suppose, long ago,
How the sna
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You've heard I suppose, long ago,
How the snakes, in a manner most antic
He marched to the County Mayo,
And trundled them into th' Atlantic
Children are natural mimics who act like their pa
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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescenc
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
The test of good manners is to be patient with ba
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The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling throug
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Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Good manners can replace morals. It may be
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Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave
Floa
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They fell, but o'er their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
Their own souls rose and cried
Alarum when th
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Their own souls rose and cried
Alarum when they heard the sudden wail
Of stricken freedom and along the gale
Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds plan
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Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Did you ever hear anyone say, That work had
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Did you ever hear anyone say, That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?
God forbid that India should ever take to industr
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoi
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
It is well to know something of the manners of va
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It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.
Books won't stay banned -
Ideas won't go to j
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Books won't stay banned -
Ideas won't go to jail.
Good manners: The noise you don't make when
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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you
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Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
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Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechani
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
There is a great streak of violence in every human
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There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
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