Cultural Exchange

A cultural Chernobyl. - Ariane Mnouchkine

Polite conversation is rarely either. - Fran Lebowitz

What once were vices are manners now. - Seneca

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. - Thomas Jefferson

He who hurries can not walk with dignity. - Chinese Proverb

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. - Merry Browne

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace. - Charles H Spurgeon

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

You're a bartender, y'aint a mortrician. - Archie Bunker

Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues. - John Stott

Every love's the love before in a duller dress. - Dorothy Parker

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. - H L Mencken

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. - Paul Theroux

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice Abrams

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past. - Barbara Kingsolver

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. - Solon

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. - Mason Cooley

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. - Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. - Clarence Thomas

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. - Ravi Zacharias

Every honest minister preaches from a reservoir of guilt and grace. - Gary Gulbranson

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result. - Oscar Wilde

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire

Bargain Sale: A place where a woman can ruin one dress while she buys another - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners. - Byron Dobell

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses. - Mark Batterson

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people. - Dian Fossey

Lemonade is made from artificial flavors, and furniture polish is made from real lemons. - Alfred E Newman

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. - Lord Chesterfield

Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. - Zen Buddhist Saying

Self-preservation is the first law of nature, but self-sacrifice is the highest rule of grace. - Unknown

Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others. - Barry Libert

The clothes in themselves do not make a statement. The woman makes the statement and the dress helps. - Jean Muir

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. - William P Young

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. - Shirley MacLaine

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment. - Lisi Harrison

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us. - Brent Staples

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. - Simone Weil