logo

Quotes About Behavior

I'll be sober tomorrow, but you'll be crazy the rest of your life.
~ W. C. Fields, 1934
Anger and Folly walk cheek by jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.
~ Benjamin Franklin
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and malice, "human" might be the greater insult.
~ Isaac Asimov
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals.
~ Oscar Wilde
You must be careful about giving any drink whatsoever to a bore. A lit-up bore is the worst in the world.
~ David Cecil
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in man.
~ Author Unknown
Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.
~ Proverb
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.
~ Albert Camus, "The Absurd Man"
We are creatures trapped in culture.
~ Terri Guillemets
Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.
~ David Letterman
?? He's making a database He's sorting it twice SELECT * from contacts WHERE behavior = 'nice' SQL Clause is coming to town ??
~ Karen Kringle, tweet, 2015
It's not what you eat but who you are when you eat it.
~ Author Unknown
Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
~ Author Unknown
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary & virtuous function.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
But the unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to get out of than bad ones.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
~ Horace Mann
Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human.
~ Terri Guillemets
I have sometimes held forth (facetiously, so my listeners believed) that the chief distinguishing trait between man and the other animals is that man is the only animal that maltreats the females of his kind. It is something of which no wolf nor cowardly coyote is ever guilty. It is something that even the dog, degenerated by domestication, will not do.
~ Jack London
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel
~ Jack London
Tutte le cattive maniere sono abitudini; ed anche le buone, però. Dipende da noi che le abitudini siano buone o cattive.
~ Jack London
I believe it's called 'irrational reasoning.' It's what happens to people when they're scared
~ Jacqueline Winspear
just because you know right from wrong, it doesn't mean you stay away from the wrong part.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
It was never my intention to cause you pain. Whether you feel strongly or very little, that does not excuse thoughtless behavior. - Adam
~ Jacquelyn Frank