Quotes About Behavior

That they may have a little peace even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.

It is not the situation. It is your reaction to the situation.

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.

My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

I've never been in trouble. I've never had detention or anything. I wasn't a teacher's pet though either.

Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms.

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself