Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

High thoughts must have high language.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

One bush they say can never hide two thieves

Your lost friends are not dead but gone before Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which you must travel in the steps they trod.

The old are in a second childhood.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Open your mind before your mouth.

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

High thoughts must have high language

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

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.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

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.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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.

Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

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.