Quotes about Behavior

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

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

Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right.

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

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Therefore, beware of such misleading, shameful, and deceptive prattle, which represents Christ solely as a Teacher of works, as though He had taught and showed us nothing but proper conduct and behavior. In that capacity He could not be called the Way; then He would be no more than a cross or a votive picture on the wayside. This indeed directs the wayfarer correctly, but it itself does not bear him along.