True jests breed bad blood. [ Proverb ]
Petty laws breed great crimes. [ Ouida ]
Breed is stronger than pasture. [ George Eliot ]
Riches breed care, poverty is safe. [ Danish Proverb ]
Riches, rightly used, breed delight. [ Plautus ]
How use doth breed a habit in a man! [ William Shakespeare ]
All that breed in the mud are not Eels. [ Proverb ]
In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade,
Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead,
The patient fisher takes his silent stand.
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand;
With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed.
And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed. [ Pope ]
A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It must be a wily mouse that can breed in a cat's ear. [ Proverb ]
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. [ Seneca ]
We cannot be kind to each other here for an hour;
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame;
However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. [ William Shakespeare ]
To breed up the son to commonsense is evermore the parent's least expense. [ Dryden ]
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. [ Hazlitt ]
High-built abundance, heap on heap! for what? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more,
Then, make a richer scramble for the throng. [ Young ]
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. [ William Penn ]
Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed contempt. [ Fuller ]
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. [ Charles Dickens ]
I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science? [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]