Quotations on behavior


With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
-Otto von Bismarck
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
-Orson Welles
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
-Wilson Mizner
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.
-Kin Hubbard
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
-Lew Wallace
Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
-Kin Hubbard
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
-E. G. Stakman