"Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account."

-- Judith Martin

#Government Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Etiquette Quotes

“It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.”
“I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.”
“A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.”
“I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.”
“This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.”
“Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.”
“Itâ€™s not Brittneyâ€™s face, not her smile, not even her eyes. All of that surface stuff made the world see her as beautiful, but it was the deeper stuff that made her different.”
“No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.”

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