Bill Konigsberg Quotes

I know about urinal etiquette. For one thing, you don’t say anything beyond “What’s up” to another guy while peeing. It’s common courtesy.

Bill Konigsberg

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• All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Women
  • Order
  • Sobriety

• Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

  

  Alveda King
  • Friend
  • Rules
  • Courtesy

• The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Leadership
  • Caring
  • Consideration

• If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Real
  • Anger
  • Courtesy

• When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

  

  Confucius
  • Music
  • War
  • Courtesy

• Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mountain
  • Fit
  • Manners

• Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

  

  William Congreve
  • Passion
  • Manners
  • Courtesy

• Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Courtesy
  • Packs
  • Wallop

• The greater man the greater courtesy.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Men
  • Courtesy

• Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Man
  • Clothes
  • Courtesy

• Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Courtesy
  • Commend

• I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Men
  • Gold
  • Doors

• Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Complaining
  • Administration
  • Agreement

• The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

  

  Alfred the Great
  • Man
  • Greater
  • Courtesy

• We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

  

  William Shawn
  • Want
  • Shows
  • Policy

• I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

  

  Judith Martin
  • Manners
  • Distinction
  • Etiquette

• President Obama inherited a one trillion dollar deficit courtesy of George Bush and turned it into a three trillion dollar deficit courtesy of Karl Marx!

  

  Michael Savage
  • President
  • Dollars
  • Courtesy

• Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Audience
  • Innocent

• I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Know

• From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• There is no end to learning, but there are many beginnings.

  

  Tim Johnson
  • Learning
  • Beginnings

• The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Growth
  • Famous

• I know about urinal etiquette. For one thing, you don’t say anything beyond “What’s up” to another guy while peeing. It’s common courtesy.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Courtesy
  • Etiquette
  • Peeing