Quotes About Behavior

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination.

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

Testosterone is a great equalizer, it turns all men into morons.

Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.