Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. - Will Cuppy

A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

He [Pericles] reduced the power of the Council of the Areopagus, a group of feeble old men who held their jobs for life and whose duty it was to declare everything null and void… [Footnote] He also revoked their right to censor the private lives of the citizens. This was nasty of Pericles, for about the only pleasure the old fellows had was catching some citizen doing what he shouldn't. After that, they had to use their imaginations.

Unfortunately, this world is full of people who are ready to think the worst when they see a man sneaking out of the wrong bedroom in the middle of the night.