Behavior Quotes

Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently, his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

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

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Humor is the ability to discern in a kindly way the folly in what is considered normal, sublime behavior, and to discern the discrepancy in what appears as a truth.

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.