Rude Quotes - Page 4

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail." Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature on it! It has a time stamp!

Why be so nasty and so rude, when I can be so fierce and so successful.

Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

I'm certainly not a prude.

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.