Nothing is less important than what fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living.
-Emily Post

QUOTES

This is a collection of quotes I've been gathering over the years, mostly modern in nature. You can search it by author or keyword.

Or you can browse them all by theme:

  • ability
  • acceptance
  • accomplishment
  • achievement
  • action
  • admissions
  • adolescence
  • adultery
  • adventure
  • adversity
  • advertising
  • advice
  • age
  • alcohol
  • ambition
  • America
  • anger
  • animals
  • apology
  • appearance
  • April
  • art
  • attitude
  • awakening
  • babies
  • barriers
  • beach
  • beauty
  • beginnings
  • behavior
  • belief
  • birthday
  • birthdays
  • blessings
  • bodies
  • book club
  • books
  • boys
  • brevity
  • business
  • celebrations
  • celebrity
  • censorship
  • challenge
  • challenges
  • chances
  • change
  • character
  • cheating
  • childhood
  • children
  • chocolate
  • choices
  • Christmas
  • cleanliness
  • clothes
  • coffee
  • color
  • comedy
  • commitment
  • communication
  • community
  • competition
  • confidence
  • conflict
  • connection
  • conscience
  • contentment
  • conversation
  • conversations
  • cooking
  • courage
  • creativity
  • critics
  • curiosity
  • dads
  • dancing
  • design
  • desire
  • destinations
  • determination
  • diets
  • discovery
  • Disney
  • dogs
  • domesticity
  • drama
  • dreams
  • drinking
  • drive
  • driving
  • earth
  • Easter
  • education
  • emotion
  • enchantment
  • encouragement
  • enthusiasm
  • envy
  • etiquette
  • exercise
  • expectations
  • experience
  • faces
  • faith
  • fall
  • fame
  • family
  • fashion
  • fatalism
  • fate
  • fatherhood
  • fear
  • feelings
  • food
  • fools
  • forgiveness
  • fortune
  • freedom
  • friendship
  • fun
  • future
  • games
  • gender
  • generosity
  • gifts
  • girls
  • giving
  • goals
  • gossip
  • government
  • graduation
  • grandchildren
  • grandparents
  • gratitude
  • grief
  • grieve
  • growth
  • hands
  • happiness
  • health
  • heart
  • hell
  • helping
  • history
  • home
  • honesty
  • hope
  • humility
  • humor
  • ideas
  • ignorance
  • illness
  • imagination
  • individuality
  • information
  • inner life
  • inspiration
  • instinct
  • integrity
  • intelligence
  • journalism
  • journey
  • joy
  • June
  • kindness
  • knowledge
  • laughter
  • leadership
  • learning
  • lesson
  • lessons
  • lies
  • life
  • likeability
  • love
  • luck
  • manners
  • marriage
  • maturity
  • memory
  • Men
  • mind
  • minds
  • mistakes
  • modesty
  • moms
  • money
  • motherhood
  • motivation
  • music
  • nature
  • neatness
  • necessities
  • new year
  • night
  • no
  • nursery rhymes
  • obligation
  • obstacles
  • openness
  • opportunity
  • optimism
  • organization
  • originality
  • parenthood
  • parties
  • past
  • patriotism
  • peace
  • people
  • perfection
  • persistence
  • perspective
  • photography
  • pictures
  • pleasure
  • politics
  • possessions
  • possibilities
  • power
  • praise
  • pregnancy
  • preparation
  • price
  • problems
  • procrastination
  • progress
  • provocative
  • purpose
  • quality
  • rationality
  • reading
  • regret
  • relationships
  • resilience
  • results
  • revenge
  • risk
  • romance
  • sadness
  • sanity
  • scent
  • school
  • scrapbooking
  • seasons
  • self
  • self esteem
  • self improvement
  • sense
  • sentiment
  • sex
  • shopping
  • siblings
  • silence
  • simplicity
  • sisterhood
  • sisters
  • sleep
  • smile
  • socializing
  • society
  • solitude
  • spirit
  • spirituality
  • sports
  • spring
  • strength
  • stress
  • style
  • success
  • summer
  • sun
  • talent
  • talk
  • teachers
  • teaching
  • teamwork
  • thinking
  • thoughts
  • time
  • toast
  • today
  • travel
  • truth
  • understanding
  • universe
  • vacation
  • vision
  • volunteerism
  • wedding
  • wine
  • wisdom
  • wishes
  • wit
  • women
  • wonder
  • words
  • work
  • worry
  • writing
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