 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...may empoison liking. — Shakespeare. A. man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. Johnson. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. — Shakespeare. It is safer to affront some people... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 392 páginas
...children. " Sir," exclaimed Dr. Johnson, " a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." Chesterfield does not exaggerate in saying that the art of pleasing is, in truth, the art of rising,... | |
 | 1903 - 748 páginas
...when he said, on this very subject: "Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one — no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down !" A few injudicious words, a carping criticism, an impatient answer — these things cloud the soul... | |
 | 1897 - 176 páginas
...their own imperfections in another. 29. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. 30. The best rules to form a young man are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone what has... | |
 | Edmund Henry Lacon Watson - 1897 - 274 páginas
...matter. To Fitzherbert he said: " Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." Yet this by no means prevented him from silencing a bore in the curtest fashion, or from expressing... | |
 | 1898 - 200 páginas
...but search will find it out. — HERRICK. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one, no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.— JOHNSON. Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part; there all the honor lies. —... | |
 | 1898 - 200 páginas
...but search will find it out. — HERRICK. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one, no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.—JOHNSON. Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part; there all the honor lies.... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1898 - 206 páginas
...d. 1788. Civility.} CXXXIV. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one, no moie right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. DR . S . JOHNSON. Night.} CXXXV. How beautiful this night! The balmiest sigh Which vernal zephyrs breathe... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1898 - 204 páginas
...d. 1788. Civility.] CXXXIV. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one, no moie right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him -i.iwn. DR. S. JOHNSON. tfigkI.] CXXXV. How beautiful this night ! The balmiest sigh Which vernal zephyrs... | |
 | 1899 - 972 páginas
...coupled with forbidding manners." <(A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than he has to act one — no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." To which may properly be added : « He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a... | |
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Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. 
