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«A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.»
«When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?»
Author: Dame Edith Evans (Actress) | About: Men and Women | Keywords: behave, behaves
«Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.»
«The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them»
«If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it?s OK to be different, that it?s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.»
«Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male»
«It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go»
«You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.»
«She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.»
«The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value»