Example is contagious behavior. [ Charles Reade ]
Put himself upon his good behavior. [ Byron ]
Take things always by the smooth handle.
We seldom repent having eaten too little.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus. [ Apuleius ]
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied. [ Mme. Necker ]
Behavior is a mirror, in which everyone shows his image. [ Goethe ]
How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened!
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. [ Seneca ]
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. [ Jefferson ]
Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man. [ William Penn ]
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior. [ Emerson ]
Women should be doubly careful of their conduct, since appearances often injure them as much as real faults. [ Abbe Girard ]
There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. [ Emerson ]
What are these wondrous civilizing arts, this Roman polish, and this smooth behavior that render man thus tractable and tame? [ Addison ]
Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit. [ Addison ]
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form. It is the finest of the fine arts. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life. [ Bishop Butler ]
As for the ass's behavior in such nice circumstances, whether he would starve sooner than violate his neutrality to the two bundles of hay, I shall not presume to determine. [ Addison ]
The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the death of eminent persons and of their behavior in that dreadful season. [ Addison ]
There are jilts in friendship, as well as in love; and by the behavior of some men in both, one would almost imagine that they industriously sought to gain the affections of others with the view only of making the parties miserable. [ Fielding ]
Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]
Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities. [ S. W. Temple ]
Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]
Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in speaking their minds.
A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. [ Steele ]
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. [ Watts ]