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Quotes About Behavior

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
~ Phyllis Bottome
If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.
~ Pierre Dukan
Man is no man, but a wolf
~ Plautus
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
~ Publilius Syrus
LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.
~ Ovid
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.
~ Rashida Jones
Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.
~ Ray Davies
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
~ Rebecca West
Who knows why men do anything?
~ Richard Adams
Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.
~ Richard L. Evans
You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.
~ Richard Madden
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
~ Richard Steele
There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.
~ Richard von Krafft-Ebing
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
~ Robert Bly
Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.
~ Robert Browning
The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
~ Helmut Schoeck
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
~ Henry Ward Beecher