He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

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.

Dogs never bite me – just humans.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

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

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

There are some loony people in this world!

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

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

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

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

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

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

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

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

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

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.‘

No sane man will dance.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

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.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

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.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

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

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.