Quotes about Respect

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man — all man, from his crown to his footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

A kindly courtesy does at least save one's feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.

I said it was a brutal thing. No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again.