Quotes About Respect

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.

Neither live with a bad man nor be at enmity with him; even as if you take hold of glowing charcoal it will burn you, if you take hold of cold charcoal it will soil you.

Honesty is a very expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

We'll have to get over the idea that we're the greatest people on earth in every respect, that we're infallible and that no one else has ideas worth considering. One of the reasons we had to fight against odds on Guadalcanal was this insufferable American notion of superiority, and our carelessness in face of danger. It goes back to Pearl Harbor and far beyond.

Never underestimate the enemy, boys. If you don't figure him to have as much sense as you've got you'll have trouble.

Toleration is odious to the intolerant.

Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places.

Baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverise the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make.

Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.

Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

Quiqueg era como George Washington desarrollado a lo caníbal.

As for Men-of-War, when they chance to meet at sea, they first go through such a string of silly bowings and scrapings, such a ducking of ensigns, that there does not seem to be much right-down hearty good-will and brotherly love about it at all. As

though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.

Do you have a girl? No. Don't you get, well, hungry now and then? Damned hungry. What do you do? Hunger, mostly. Maas uttered a short barking laugh. My dear lad. Big and strong, and if I may say so, winning as you are? I'd rather be hungry than involved. My trouble is I don't know how to be casual. Even if it's a waitress, I have to make a goddess of her in my own mind, I don't know why.

left to the inferior animals called older people.

Distance is one of the most beautiful forms of respect

The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue, and the greatest pleasure, one that moves orderly; for if you speak evil, you yourself will soon be worse spoken of.

Just because some man pays you some attention doesn't mean you're somehow obliged to devote your life to him. You're worth MORE than that.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.

ODYSSÉE, VIII, LES AMOURS D'ARÈS ET D'APHRODITE (479-480) : ''Il n'est d'homme ici-bas qui ne doive aux aèdes l'estime et le respect.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.