Quotes About Behavior

Good or evil, it doesn't really matter, so long as your novel's character is interesting.

Chemistry is the study of the composition, properties, and behavior of matter—humor writing is the study of the composition, properties, and behavior of funny. The atoms, or basic units, of humor writing are words. (The subatomic structures are letters or sounds.) These comedic atoms (words) form the elements known as jokes. Although there

at the heart of permaculture lay a gorgeously empathetic view of human nature: people aren't inherently wasteful and greedy, but fall into those patterns because of the temptations of the modern world.

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.

Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.

When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.

I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell."

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.

The wider you spread your fingers apart while clapping is equal to the amount of retarded you look while clapping.

They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran