Quotes about Respect
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
— Henry David Thoreau
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
— Henry David Thoreau
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
— Jacques Maritain
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
— Mark Twain
I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.
— George W. Bush
Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson