Quotes About Behavior

winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.

She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.

A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, and a devious man is hated.

Wicked behavior is detestable to kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.

It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

A foolís lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.

Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Even a young man is known by his actions—whether his conduct is pure and upright.

The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,

or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

Like a thorn that falls into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.

Even as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.

The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

“How can you say, ëI am not defiled; I have not run after the Baalsí? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.

“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a womanís impurity.

To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: