Quotes About Behavior

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

I know how men think when they're not responding to questions in a clinical study.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.