Quotes About Behavior

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Why do men go to zoos?