Quotes About Behavior

Csak a bolond alacsonyítja le magát, amikor tele a világ olyanokkal, akik szívesen megteszik ezt helyette.

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

Habit is stronger than reason

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

Cats are snooty. When you come home, even after a long day at work, there's a good chance your cat will look up at you, then turn away like you're the help. And like you've arrived for work late.

and yes, the rich are never crazy, they're eccentric),

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

The columnist gives these words to the longings of an 11-year-old he meets with Tourette's syndrome: "Wisdom is encoded in our common language. We all have, to some extent, a complex, sometimes adversarial, relationship with our physical selves. And I more than most people know that it is correct to say,'I have a body.' There is my body, and then there is ME, trying to make it behave.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

Men like us — up to a point — we're more careful when we're drunk. But once we get past that point, we don't give a damn.

Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

The inspector knew the mentality of malefactors, criminals and crooks. He knew that you always find some kind of passion at the root of it.

Behavior is nothing more than a belated announcement of a previously accepted thought as one's own.

The uncivilized behavior of some human beings in a zoo has to be seen to be believed.

It was due to this attitude of pomposity that he set the villa on fire. Leslie

Well, I want you all to be polite,' said Mother firmly, adding, 'and you're not to mention owls, Larry. She might think we're peculiar.' 'We are,' concluded Larry with feeling.

I don't want him drooling all over the place like a sex-starved spaniel.

It became obvious, now that we had time to concentrate, that Captain Creech was extremely drunk.

The aristocrats on both sides of the Atlantic, whether from new or old wealth, have the manners and the morals of small-town gossips. And

We ask for help and help is given. Often we do not recognize that other people's alcoholism, sexual betrayals, chronic illnesses, and alienating behavior are actually cries for help. But unquestionably God recognizes every plea no matter what form it takes, and God finds some way to give us as much help as we are willing to receive at that time.