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

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Ancestry Quotes #Signals Quotes #Breeding Quotes

“I didnâ€™t like to dress up in high school. I wore pajamas all the time. Or I would have my hair in a high bun from dance, and just wear dance clothes.â€”
“For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.”

Source : "Q+A: Lizzy Caplan, Funnywoman". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 26, 2012.
“Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.”

Source : James Whitcomb Riley, “Who Bides His Time”
“The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.”
“I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.”

Source : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”
“There is a resentment and rejection of liberal culture. That culture is not available to many people in America. And the liberal coastal elite, who may never have been to rural America, just think everyone there is racist and homophobic and judge them to be terrible people. They think there is nothing wrong to be making jokes about 'meth heads', who are actually a group of people with poverty-related drug issues. They don't see their own hypocrisy. I think this is a huge issue and one that cannot be ignored.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes than Reasonings, Hypotheses, and Deductions are; ... These are things we are sure of, so far as our Senses are not fallible; and which, in probability, have been ever since the Creation, and will remain to the End of the World, in the same Condition we now find them.”
“The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.”

Source : Ebenezer Elliott (1876). “Poetical Works”, p.6

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