Vicki Baum Quotes

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

Habit is ten times nature.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

A leapord never changes his stripes.

A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Custom is second nature.

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

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.

You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.

People are animals, man.

Habit is second nature.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.