Breeding Quotes - Page 8

• I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Eugenics, People, Wish

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

  Michio Kaku

  Population, Evolution, Rate

  Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.326, OUP Oxford

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• 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

  May, Architecture, Sanity

  Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Blood, Ears

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• Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

  George MacDonald

  Real, Independent, Names

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.202, Delphi Classics

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• The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Eye, May

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• The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

  Leigh Hunt

  Perfection, Genius, Life Is

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• It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.

  Charles Kingsley

  Simple, Men, Europe

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.59, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Technology, Machines, Use

  Thorstein Veblen (2005). “The Theory of Business Enterprise”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

  Henry Fielding

  Joining In, Laughing, Mirth

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.643

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• It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Differences, Twenties, Mammals

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.233, Basic Books

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• In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together.

  Kenny Troutt

  Horse, Together, Bills

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• Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.

  Charles Clover

  Moving, Swimming, Rivers

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

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• When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.

  Duffy

  Couple, Space, People

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• Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Plato, Kind, Members

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• Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Hate, Hands

  "Revolt in 2100". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1953.

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• The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

  Kylie Tennant

  Religious, Responsibility, Race

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• Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

  Tami Hoag

  Family, Mind, Bacteria

  Tami Hoag (2003). “Ashes to Ashes: A Novel”, p.71, Bantam

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• When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.

  Frances Osborne

  Honesty, Eye, Guilt

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• Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Kindness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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• Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

  Samuel Johnson

  Self Esteem, Mean, Law

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.459

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• The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding that is constantly applied. ... The first move in the direction of cordiality must come from the lady, the whole code of behaviour being based on the assumption that she is the social superior.

  Humphry Davy

  Moving, Men, Hands

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• The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.

  Adolf Hitler

  Dog, Horse, Philosophy

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Artist, Perspective, Comedian

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• People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.

  Emily Post

  Past, Land, Names

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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