Quotes About Behavior

markets didn't have enough examples of Fed behavior in similar circumstances.

Every so often, life presents a dilemma upon which the manuals of etiquette are woefully silent, and this was a snorter: whether it demonstrates better breeding to choke oneself into a frothy stupor or to expectorate one's dry Martini across four foot of well-polished bar, and six-foot-two of well-regarded barman.

The universities have instituted a new right: the right not to be offended. When tolerance of every sort of behavior reigns, those who believe in standards and rules are destined for castigation.

When someone labels you a bad human being because they disagree with you, they are bullying you. They are attacking your character without justification. That's nasty. In fact, it makes them nasty.

This is the Hollywood argument same-sex marriage: you like certain characters, so if you don't like their behavior, it's because you're mean and nasty. This is what Hollywood does best.

Trump wasn't doing anything to game Facebook. He simply was what Facebook liked.

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

No creo que nadie sea bueno o malo del todo. Somos una mezcla y actuamos de acuerdo a las circunstancias en que nos encontramos.

Fools keep their moral code in a compact and indivisible whole so that it may interfere as little as possible with their actions and leave them their freedom in all matters of detail.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Words may show a man's wit, actions his meaning.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

We may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct.

This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

Ignorance leads men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others.

How convenient does it prove to be a rational animal, that knows how to find or invent a plausible pretext for whatever it has an inclination to do!

He that drinks fast, pays slow.