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Quotes About Respect

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.
~ Confucius
Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
~ Confucius
Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.
~ Cris Mazza
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
~ David Ogilvy
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
~ E. W. Howe
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
~ Edward Abbey
I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
~ Elizabeth I
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
~ Frederic Farrar
Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
~ Gillian Flynn
Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.
~ Manuel Puig
What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
~ Maxim Gorky
No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.
~ Nancy Friday
A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
~ Nikolai Gogol
If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.
~ Paul Gascoigne
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
~ Paul the Apostle
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
~ Paul Watson
A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
~ Pericles
Women love an honest man.
~ Rita Ora
I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.
~ Robert E. Lee
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
~ Horace
Never call a man a fool; borrow from him
~ Addison Mizner
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
~ Aeschylus