"It is a mistake that there is..." - Quote by Mark Twain
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
More by Mark Twain
“You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.”
“In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.”
“Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.”
More on Manners
“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.”
“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.”
“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”