Today is a good day to insult someone because you have a quasi-good excuse for it: Have a Bad Day Day. This holiday (if you can call it that) began for salespeople, who are forced to tell everyone to “have a good day” whenever they make a sales call. Today, however, sales professionals are encouraged to tell people to “have a bad day”—which probably makes them feel a lot better when they are dealing with a difficult client.
Honestly, sometimes it’s fun to insult people—they may deserve it or at the very least, you can take out your frustrations on them. However, the quotes that you will read here today are not actual insults—they are about the act of being insulting (and some of them are actually insulting).
1. “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
–Oscar Wilde
2. “A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.”
–Louis Nizer
3. “Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.”
–Haim Ginott
4. “If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.”
–J. Russell Lynes
5. “A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”
–Moliere
6. “Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?”
–Mason Cooley
7. “Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.”
–Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8. “It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”
–Epictetus
9. “Never insult anyone by accident.”
–Robert A. Heinlein
10. “Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone.”
–Arab Proverb
11. “To be insulted by you is to be garlanded with lilies.”
–Aristophanes
12. “Re-examine all that you have been told...dismiss that which insults your soul.”
–Walt Whitman
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