Quotes About Behavior

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Men tend to be selfish.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.