Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners.
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbol means nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not. As I wrote that farewell column to Marley, I realized it was all right there in front of us, if only we opened our eyes. Sometimes it took a dog with bad breath, worse manners, and pure intentions to help us see.