Manners are love in a cool climate.
From Quentin Crisp
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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