Manliana—A Manlian, i.e., a harsh and severe sentence, such as that of Titus Manlius, who ordered his son to be scourged and beheaded for fighting contrary to orders.
Männer richten nach Gründen; des Weibes Urteil ist seine Liebe; wo es nicht liebt, hat schon gerichtet das Weib—Men judge on rational grounds; the woman's judgment is her love; where the woman does not love, she has judged. Schiller.
Manners are not idle, but the fruit / Of loyal 35 nature and of noble mind. Tennyson.
Manners are of more importance than laws; upon them in a great measure laws depend. Burke.
Manners are stronger than laws. Pr.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into a usage. Emerson.
Manners are the root, laws only the branches. Horace Mann.
Manners are the shadows of virtues, the 40 momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. Sydney Smith.
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time. A. B. Alcott.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. Horace Mann.