Quotes About Behavior

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

Men become old, but they never become good.

I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Man is a bad animal.

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.

By men's words we know them.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.