Quotes About Behavior

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.