The word "agronomy" is the short way of indicating agriculture , horticulture, viticulture, arboriculture, dairying, breeding of live stock, beekeeping, &c.
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
william congreveApril is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. EliotAs with new wine intoxicated both They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel Divinity within them breeding wings Wherewith to scorn the earth.
john miltonIt's a na|«ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
ernest hemingwaySimplicity is a great element of good breeding.
fanny kembleGeorge Moore had a ceaseless preoccupation with painting and the theatre, within certain limits a technical understanding of both; whatever idea possessed him, courage and explosive power; but sacrificed all that seemed to other men good breeding, honour, friendship, in pursuit of what he called the root facts of life.
George MooreFormerly character proved a strong curb for passions; in the present there is not much strength in character, and it grows less and less because of the prevailing scepticism, which is a decomposing element. It is like a bacillus breeding in the human soul; it destroys the resistant power against the physiological craving of the nerves, of nerves diseased. The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.
henryk sienkiewiczIt's a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
james thurberJust as "pluck" comes of breeding, so is endurance especially an attribute of the artist. Because he can stand outside himself, and (if there be nothing ignoble in them) take pleasure in his own sufferings, the artist has a huge advantage over you and me.
max beerbohmGood breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
DemocritusThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but transalate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions.
e. m. forsterEugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.
margaret sangerThe test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard ShawI am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came in with the Conqueror.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.
Richard Brinsley SheridanGood breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.
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