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

• Courtesy
• Etiquette
• Peeing

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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
  • Courtesy

• 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 do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if they don't say, "Thank you," it pisses me off. I say, "Yes, ma'am," and, "Yes, sir." Stuff that is maybe archaic in a lot of ways, but that's how I was raised, and I don't think there's really any harm in that.

  

  Chris Black
  • Rules
  • Ways
  • Etiquette

• 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
  • Agreement
  • Administration

• 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

• Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Money
  • Love

• Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Hours
  • Golden
  • Mendaciously

• You can be enormously effective for a period of time, because it's almost like there's an engine in you that needs to keep going, and you have a greater drive than other people - who may be more happy and balanced in life - because you have to keep going out and proving yourself over and over again.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 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