Quotes About Behavior

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

Money is what makes a man act funny.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

No man does right by a woman at a party.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.

Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces.