More Quotable Quotes -- Niceness

Yes, it is partially true that I am prone to slapping up quotes when I do not have too much seemingly original content to add. However, that is not the whole of it. I do actually think there are people out there more perceptive than me; or at least there are people out there who have said very perceptive things, that I doubt I can improve on.

Anyway, this is the reverse side of the mirror of my displeasure with nasty hateful people. Let us now praise (or at least showcase) aspects of Niceness:





In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
-- T. Jefferson


When a woman behaves like a man, why can't she behave like a nice man?
-- Dame Edith Evans


We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other. Never do, probably never will. Our reputations depend on the opinions of the ill informed. We all have better moments than anybody ever knows, and so do all the others. We are, each one of us, books that are read by critics who only glanced at the chapter headings and the jacket flap. Each one of us is a secret, and on that basis we ought to treat each other with the deepest respect.
-- Garrison Keillor, Prairie Home Companion (March 19, 1994)

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Yes the Keillor quote is less 'quotable' because of it's length, but I think it is worth reading, and rereading, even if it is not something easily remembered and repeated.

That is it for now.