Breed Quotes - page 2

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs. (Robert A. Heinlein)
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. View quote
Marquis de Sade
Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit. View quote
George Eliot
Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically. View quote
Madison Grant
Shun delays, they breed remorse; Take thy time while time is lent thee; Creeping snails have weakest force, Fly their fault lest thou repent thee. Good is best when soonest wrought, Linger'd labours come to nought. View quote
Robert Southwell
Time wears all his locks before, Take thy hold upon his forehead; When he flies he turns no more, And behind his scalp is naked. Works adjourn'd have many stays, Long demurs breed new delays. View quote
Robert Southwell
Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores! View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
The Hyla breed That shouted in the mist a month ago, Like ghost of sleighbells in a ghost of snow. View quote
Robert Frost
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. (George S. Patton)
There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation. View quote
Francis Galton
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs-I was a man before I was a king. View quote
Robert E. Howard
I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects.... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that [my children] should be bred up in it too. View quote
William Cobbett
I am officially a member of The New Breed! View quote
Phil Brooks
Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. View quote
George Santayana
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age. View quote
George Santayana
Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate. View quote
Sarah Grimké
The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind. (Ingrid Newkirk)
Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them. View quote
Melanie Phillips
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Only one ship is seeking us, a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake No waters breed or break. View quote
Philip Larkin
I have found out a gift for my fair I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. View quote
William Shenstone