Thomas Carlyle Quotes

In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger.

If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.

Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.

A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

When a woman extends her hand for you to shake it, then you shake her hand. You do not turn it up and kiss it. And it is just so creepy. Because, you know, I handed it at this angle. I handed it at the handshake angle and so I'm not giving it to you to do whatever you want with it. I'm not loaning it to you. It's like if somebody borrowed your lawnmower and you're assuming they're going to use it to mow their lawn. You don't want to find out later they put it in the ocean!

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

Two is company; three is fifty bucks.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

A lot of girls in L.A. just stand in the corner wondering 'Who's gonna talk to me? Who am I gonna diss?' As for the girls in Arizona, it's just so different. They're like 'You have really cute dimples. You know that?' 'You have really nice eyes.' 'What's your name? Kellan? That's cool, that's unique.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

Never make eye contact with anyone while eating a banana