Quotes About Respect

The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

You don't mow another man's lawn!

I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Credo Mutwa, the most knowledgeable man i have ever had the honor of knowing.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

Every parent of a teenager gets used to it: the moment in a child's life when he or she decides that certain facts are just too much trouble to explain to Mom or Dad. The parents can't, and needn't, know every last little thing. They just have to accept this, be content with what they can glean on their own, and move on.

The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness.

The lieutenant looks somewhat taken aback that Uncle Enzo is concerning himself with such a tiny detail It is as if the don were going up and down highways picking up litter or something. But he nods respectfully, having just learned something: details matter.

there was something willfully idiotic in going to an unknown country, ignoring its people, their languages, art, its beasts and butterflies, flowers, herbs, trees, ruins, et cetera, and reducing it all to a few lumps of heavy matter un the center of a dish.

He has a kind of exaggerated politeness that is kind of like a military man.

If he's got a big yellow scarf over his left shoulder, he's the king. Bow lower in that case.

RESPECT THE PEDESTRIAN, say the street signs of Metro Manila. As soon as Randy saw those he knew that he was in trouble.

DFW's writing reflects an attitude that is lovely: a touching, and for the most part well-founded, belief that you can explain anything with words if you work hard enough and show your readers sufficient respect.

Once in his life, before the war, he had fallen for a girl as quickly as Einstein had for Sonar Taxlaw. That one brief experience with stupid blind love sufficed to make it possible for him to acknowledge its reality and respect its power.

but gets to be in the Pantheon anyway and sit on Olympus with the Gods, as if you went to the Supreme Court and found Bozo the Clown planted among the justices.