Being Nice

Dag Hammarskjold:
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Dutch proverb:
Too nice is neighbor's fool.

Gertrude Stein:
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this

war is not at all a nice war.

1943

Jimmy Durante:
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich:
Well behaved women rarely make history.

Mark Twain:
I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Saul Alinsky:
Last guys don't finish nice.

Thomas Jefferson:
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.