Dogs never bite me – just humans.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

I love pets, especially dogs.

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.