Helpful Hint!

I know of something that each and everyone of us can use, and it doesn’t cost one red cent. It is easy to do and you are given umpteenth times to use it daily. It can make your life pleasant, it causes contentment, builds up self esteem, and it can bring you respect from the different people in your life: bosses, children, spouses, friends, neighbors and complete strangers. Not to mention that it can make you feel admired and needed.

It can be done in a variety of ways, and there are no age limits, it is cute on a toddler, and admirable in a teenager, and sought after in an adult. It can open doors for you, and get you into places faster, it can get you the good seats, and it can cause others to do things for you they ordinarily wouldn’t do. It can make you more likable, it can cause people to be ready to give you aid when needed. It can also make you look cultivated and refined, and sophisticated. Using it can bring you peace and exhilaration at the same time. Yet with all these qualities, it is being used less and less these days.

The answer to this riddle is “Manners”.

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use”. ~~Emily Post

“Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices”. ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy”. ~~E.V. Lucas

“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength”. ~~Eric Hoffer

“Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners”. ~~Author Unknown

“Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident”. ~~P.J. O'Rourke

“People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting”. ~~French Proverb

“Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts”. ~~Abel Stevens
“Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man”. ~~ Richard Whately

“A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait”. ~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all”. ~~ “Thumper” on Bambi

“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather then doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern”. ~~ R. Buckminster Fuller

“I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife”. ~~James Russell Lowell

“Anyone can be polite to a king; it takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar”. ~~Author Unknown

"If there is a place where good manners, courtesy, and politeness have all but disappeared, it is a sure sign of a place that is destined to discord, distrust, disunity and eventual destruction". ~~Kathleen Fields

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