Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

More from Mary Wilson Little

• A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.
• He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at twenty.
• In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.
• There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.