It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.

The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them, however, because it is incorrect to correct grown people, even if you have grown them yourself.

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.

Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.