I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean mean stuff.

Come gentlemen I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Ladies and gentlemen god bless America - land of the free home of the brave.

Well look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate ease health and applause and even life to the sacred calls of his country.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

A great wind swept over the ghetto carrying away shame invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze friendly almost gentle.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game especially these days.

The person be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny that humor comes from a much gentler place.

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases what a waste of good food it is!

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Education begins the gentleman but reading good company and reflection must finish him.

No real English gentleman in his secret soul was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

Dad was a very gentle sweet man.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent a selfish act.

My Dad a small-town lawyer was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16 he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from Janesville Wisconsin.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.