Never, ever call the police.
Nothing good happens after midnight.
Unwed pregnancy shows a lack of creativity and skill.
Waste nothing, snout to tail.
Cocktails at 5PM and dinner at 7PM, everyone sits at the table.
No elbows on the table.
Good manners make up for any other shortcoming.
Nobody in the pool after eating.
You don't need a psychiatrist if you have good neighbors and cocktail hour.
Answer the phone in two rings.
A car horn is not a door bell.
(All my grandmother's rules that I can remember).
“A car horn is not a doorbell!”
I know a couple of my neighboors who need to learn that lesson. Not that I’m going to be the one who enlightens them. I’ve found that the dumber the mistake is, the madder the offending party will get about being corrected.
I only remember one, said to my aunt when she said she had skipped church because she had "nothing to wear":
"God don't look at your clothes when you go to church."