Quotes About Behavior

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

I do not hate the man, but his vices.