Quotes About Behavior

Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?

Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both. In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

Minnows and catfish can recognize each member of their own species by his particular, person-specific odor. It is hard to imagine a solitary, independent, existentialist minnow, recognizable for himself alone; minnows in a school behave like interchangeable, identical parts of an organism. But there it is.

Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Come on, Father. Stop me. Tell me to behave, to go to hell, something, anything.

We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

A token of bathroom stoner etiquette.

Usually, I avoid the topic by shoving food into my mouth then making I'm sorry, as you can see, it would be rude for me to speak hand signals

And Koko's behavior has been abnormal since we moved in. He's always talking to himself and staring into space.' 'He's talking to ghosts,' Roger said with a straight face.

Billions are spent for neurophysiological research to control human behavior, he reflected. Beauty shops would be cheaper.

except that a fugue was marked by lassitude while a trance could sometimes be accompanied by activity, such as masturbating or talking.

Why is it when a man gets mad, he's aaangry, but when a woman gets mad, it's just a tantrum?" She paused, struck by what he'd said.

Insanity, the saying went, was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results.

The host with the most horrible manners. If he invites you, send a sick note. If he insists, take to your bed and die.

The knowledge of what is good without practicing it, turns frequently to evil. —C. MARTELLI, FENCING MASTER

If you believe you are a problem, sooner or later you will begin to act like one. Likewise, if you believe you are not intrinsically a problem but a solution, you will begin to act like one.

Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you've pretty much guaranteed the crime.

We're about to be overrun by an entire generation of juvenile psychopaths.

When men are cruel, it's capricious. When women are cruel, it's serious.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.