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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that. -- Lillian Hellman
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. -- Carl Jung
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. -- Fanny Kemble
An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception. -- John Bevere
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. -- Luther Burbank
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. -- Aristophanes
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. -- James Thurber
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. -- Cyril Connolly
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. -- Van Wyck Brooks
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. -- Thomas Carlyle
Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease. -- Rod Parsley
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. -- Lord Chesterfield
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. -- George Bernard Shaw
The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber. -- Chris LeDoux
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. -- Lord Chesterfield
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. -- T. S. Eliot
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. -- Garrett Hardin
Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women. -- Beryl Markham
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. -- Joseph Addison
Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas. -- Anna Lindh
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction. -- Arthur Keith
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least. -- Joseph Addison
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. -- Lord Chesterfield
Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class. -- Anne Perry
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it. -- Alice Cooper
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding. -- Joseph Addison
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind. -- William Penn
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim. -- Caroline Knapp
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. -- Lord Chesterfield
Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it. -- Thomas Hunt Morgan
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. -- Dorothy Corkille Briggs
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. -- Michael Specter
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley. -- Ken Auletta
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. -- James F. Cooper
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. -- Quincy Jones
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony. -- Terry Pratchett
I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States. -- Amanda Hearst
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities. -- Alice Walton
Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season. -- Aristotle
Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation. -- Cyrus S. Poonawalla
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding. -- Joseph Cook
Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion. -- Mollie Marti
Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war. -- Adam Schiff
An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat. -- Guy Finley
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion. -- Donald Davidson
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding. -- Violet Bonham Carter
The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them. -- Martin Gardner
Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation... -- Michael Franti
The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. -- Ambrose Bierce
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. -- Lord Chesterfield
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others -- Benjamin Franklin
Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools. -- Peter R. Grant
The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics. -- James Cook
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution. -- Michio Kaku
So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle. -- Prince Philip
....we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least. -- Joseph Addison
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. -- Marie of Romania
Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding. -- Susan Cain
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. -- William Wycherley
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding. -- William Congreve
I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding -- Theodore Roosevelt
The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. -- Jeffrey Sachs
Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry... -- Ned Sublette
No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night. -- Jude Morgan
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character. -- Democritus
He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself -- Plutarch
Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. -- Joseph Addison
Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners. -- Samuel Johnson
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before. -- Hilary Mantel
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. -- Mark Twain
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. -- Ernest Hemingway
Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope. -- Tami Hoag
No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life. -- Esther Williams
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. -- David Quammen
The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. -- Lord Chesterfield
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals. -- Jonathan Haidt
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society. -- George MacDonald
thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading. -- Isaac Watts
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. -- Leigh Hunt
Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls. -- Lorde
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. -- Lord Chesterfield
Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way? -- Isabelle Holland
Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change. -- Israelmore Ayivor
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. -- Meg Rosoff
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding. -- Takashi Murakami
... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service. -- Bill Cooke
I'd signed six things and my stack wasn't getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked. -- Ilona Andrews
Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity. -- Momofuku Ando
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. -- George Bernard Shaw
There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers. -- Michael Demon Calce
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic. -- James Lovelock
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents. -- Lord Chesterfield
Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips -- Audre Lorde
I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding. -- William Shakespeare
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will acceptthose whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. -- E. M. Forster
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence. -- George Crabbe
Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others; A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance of Self -- Rosemarie Yusen
Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid. -- Lord Chesterfield
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations. -- Anton Chekhov
Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world. -- Harland Williams
I think video village is bullshit. It's like it's a breeding ground for people to nitpick and feel important. It's just such a weird dynamic. -- Drew Barrymore
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration. -- Edith Wharton
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us. -- Jonathan Swift

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