Quotes About Behavior

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.