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Quotations: Manners

Dropping a business proposition into the lap of a complete stranger with no warning is a platonic equivalent of walking up to someone you've never seen before and asking, "Hey, wanna screw?"

Geoff Miller

But then in Glasgow, it seems one half of the population is drunkenly slurring the sentance: "C'm'ere Jimmy, I'll punch yer fuckin' throat in." The other half are getting offended if someone says "damn".

Julian Macassey

All vehicles which sport 'My Child was ...' stickers will be driven rudely and poorly, supporting my uncle Van's theory that if it wasn't for a few of us smart folks sleeping around ALL the children would be as stupid as their parents!

Scott M. Hampton

There are moments in life when true invective is called for, when it becomes an absolute necessity, out of a deep sense of justice, to denounce, mock, vituperate, lash out, in the strongest possible language.

Charles Simic


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