The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
A man's own good breeding ishis best security against other people's ill-manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life. — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding. — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history. — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Well, puppy mills are - it's just a name given to really, really bad dog breeding facilities and sadly, we have a… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then… — Allen West Copy Share Image
For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes… — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,… — Rose George Copy Share Image
She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Altogether at least sixty thousand people were sterilized because of Laughlin’s efforts. At the peak of the movement in the 1930s, some… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at.… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
“There is no 'eugenics' in Nietzsche - despite occasional references to 'breeding'- at least no more than is implicit in the recommendation… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“widespread. Some states go so far as to forcibly sterilize people with certain disabilities. Some prohibit marriage for the genetically disabled, for… — Ben Mattlin Copy Share Image
“I hold it clear, therefore, if anything is clear about the business, that the Eugenists do not merely mean that the mass… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“IV. Real techies don’t worry about forced eugenics. I learned this from a real techie in the cafeteria of a software company.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image