Quotes About Respect

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

Flies spread disease — keep yours zipped.

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

There cometh one mightier than I [John the Baptist] after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

Do not speak ill of the dead.

As with the maid, so with her mistress.

O believers, let not any people scoff at another people who may be better than they;… And find not fault with one another, neither revile one another.

Thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

Despise not thy mother when she is old.

Don't laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.

Touch me not.

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that's why the world calls her grandmother.

Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men's lives.

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.

Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defend the constitution and others destroy it.

Never let the hand you hold, hold you down.

Don't argue with an 18-wheeler.

Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.