DONTFINKUCANFUCKWIDME,

Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia

1 February – 31 March 2007

 Talk Is Cheap, 2005 - 2007

Talk Is Cheap, 2005 - 2007

acrylic and marble dust on paper and adhesive vinyl lettering
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DONTFINKUFANFUCKWIDME, 2007

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In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior

FRANCIS BACON
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One face to the world, another at home, makes for misery.
AMY VANDERBILT
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(Fashion) wears out more apparel than the man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
BALTASAR GRACIÁN
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The great secret is not having good manners or bad manners or any particular sort of manners, but having the same manners for all human souls.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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Illusion is the secret of beauty.
GEORGE MASTERS
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
EURIPIDES
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We won't die secret deaths anymore.
TONY KUSHNER
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More tears have been shed over men lack of manners than their lack of morals.
HELEN HATHAWAY
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is growing up.
JAMES BALDWIN
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This is my last message to you; in sorrow seek happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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There is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
PLATUS
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Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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I have often seen men prove unmannerly by too much manners and importunate by too much courtesy.
MONTAIGNE
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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My clothes keep my various selves buttoned up together, and enable all these otherwise irreconcilable aggregates of psychological phenomena to pass themselves off as one person.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
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The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
ANTOINE BRET
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When angry, count four; when very angry swear.
MARK TWAIN
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Never mistake endurance for hospitality.
UNKNOWN
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(A cocktail party is) an affair where you meet old friends you never met before.
FULTON BRYAN
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
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Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
JOESEPH ADDISON
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If you have one true friend, you have more than your share
THOMAS FULLER
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It destroys one nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
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(To be in society is) a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy.
OSCAR WILDE
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Rudeness is the weak man imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER
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Confidence does more to make conversation than wit.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are wonderful.
EDGAR MAGNIN
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Every man has his price.
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
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Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
AMBROSE BIERCE
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A host is like a general: It takes a mishap to reveal his genius.
HORACE
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(Sociability is) the art of unlearning to be preoccupied with yourself.
OSCAR BLUMENTHAL
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Everyone thinks himself well bred
LORD SHAFTSBURY
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
VICTOR HUGO
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Manners are more important than the laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend
EDMUND BURKE
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The first quality of a good education is good manners-and some people flunk the course.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
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Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
PUBLILUS SYRUS
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
EURIPIDES
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Punctuality is the politeness of Kings.
LOUIS XVIII
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
DOROTHY PARKER
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Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCAL