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Quotes of the Day for 21 January 2005 - Public Behavior

It was on this day in 1908 that New York City adopted the Sullivan Ordinance, a bill prohibited women from smoking in public. Penalties included fines of $5 to $25 and jail terms of up to ten days. Although I was unable to find a date for when this was overturned, we know that silly attempts to regulate public behavior never last long.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
     - Bertrand Russell, 1872 - 1970

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
     - Bryan White

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
     - Victor Hugo, 1802 - 1885

He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
     - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
     - Dame Edith Evans, 1888 - 1976

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
     - Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946

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