Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Courtesy Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Relationships Quotes, Tact Quotes

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its...

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its...

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned...

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned...

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted...

If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted...

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly...

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly...

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound

And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

Life is a great bundle of little things.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the...

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the...

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only...

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only...