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Respect Quotes - Page 29

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.261, Cambridge University Press

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.168

With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it.

Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.83, Zondervan