Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.
Stick that bumbershoot in elephant's foot brolly stand behind the big door. Mind your manners at High tea.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and Roland had as much to do with the majority of medieval knights as the...
Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to plagiarize them without much success, which led him, after long reflection (a whole summer night), ...
That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.
I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.
if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
A brick could be used in a manner most secret. But Shh! I can't tell you. What part about secret don't you understand?
A blanket could be used to not only make promises, but fulfill them too. They're so soft and warm, how could they not be used in this manner?
A person can learn all manner of things, no matter where he finds himself, provided his spirit is determined.
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
