Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
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.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
In addition to tourism, it is essential to employ other ways to benefit more from the use of natural resources than from their destruction - from wildlife breeding operations to - yes - hunting of abundant species where viable.
I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.
The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.
No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.
. . . enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.
For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.
Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.
Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.
Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.
Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.
The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.
Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.