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Quotes About Behavior

Men are often bad, but babies never are.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.
~ Ne-Yo
An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
~ Plato
A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.
~ Pope Clement I
Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network.
~ Rita Rudner
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
~ Robert Smith Surtees
A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.
~ Russell Lynes
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
~ Samuel Johnson
The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature
~ Stanley Ellin
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
~ Voltaire
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
~ Joseph Addison
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
~ Washington Irving
The game women play is men.
~ Adam Smith
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
~ Aristotle
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
~ Arthur Keith
Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.
~ Arthur Koestler
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow
~ Saadi
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
~ Seneca the Younger
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
~ Horace Mann
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
~ Ilka Chase
Men are creatures with eight hands.
~ Jayne Mansfield