Try Not To Annoy Your Relatives Unnecessarily.

One Reason That The Task Of Inventing Manners Is So Difficult Is That Etiquette Is Folk Custom, And People Have Emotional Ties To The Forms Of Their Youth. That Is Why There Is Such Hostility Between Generations In Times Of Rapid Change; Their Manners Being Different, Each Feels Affronted By The Other, Taking Even The Most Surface Choices For Challenges.

Fairness Does Not Consist So Much Of Everybody's Doing The Same Thing, But Of Everybody's Being Willing To Do Something That Others Don't Want To Do.

A Wedding Invitation Is Sent By People Who Have Been Saying, "do We Have To Ask Them?" To People Whose First Response Is, "how Much Do You Think We Have To Spend On Them?

Being Listened To Should Be Sufficiently Gratifying In Itself, Whether Or Not The Advice Is Followed.

What You Have When Everyone Wears The Same Playclothes For All Occasions, Is Addressed By Nickname, Expected To Participate In Show And Tell, And Bullied Out Of Any Desire Form Privacy, Is Not Democracy; It Is Kindergarten.