Quotes About Behavior

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I'm not the kind of guy who just goes up to women.

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.

Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

Each sportsman behaves differently.

Character is not created on the spot.

Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

I believe Islam was truly spread by example. So whatever good a Muslim does publicly will be seen - the same is true for the bad.

The coronavirus pandemic and fears about its spread have brought to a screeching halt years of efforts to get Americans to do one small thing: bring their own bags to the grocery store and stop using plastic ones.

Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.

I think it is quite hard to be as angry and abusive face to face as it is online. But my fear is that as we get more and more normalised to abuse online, it will start spreading away from the screen.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.