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Quotes About Respect

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling
~ Mark Twain
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race
~ Mark Twain
It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling
~ Mark Twain
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting.
~ Mark Twain
I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.
~ Mark Twain
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
~ Mark Twain
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
~ Mark Twain
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
~ Mark Twain
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
~ Mark Twain
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
~ Mark Twain
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.
~ Mark Twain
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
~ Mark Twain
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
~ Mark Twain
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
~ Mark Twain
I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.
~ Mark Udall
I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.
~ Mark Van Doren
Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?
~ Frankie Boyle
Do you mind if I don't smoke?
~ Groucho Marx
Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.
~ Will Rogers
I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.
~ George W. Bush
In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
~ Carl Sandburg
Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.
~ Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl