Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, waggery, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
BehaviorEtiquetteProfessionalismReputationRespectSocial norms
Strict decorum can sometimes stifle genuine connection or creativity.
Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.
I have made it a team rule that my players behave as gentlemen and dress as gentlemen. I wanted to end the popular conception that professional athletes were a…
Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated you will be thought to have deserved it.