Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Good bees never turn drones. Pr. 5

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen, the more select the more enjoyable. A. B. Alcott.

Good bread needs baking. Pr. in Goethe.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Chesterfield.

Good-breeding differs, if at all, from high-breeding, only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own. Carlyle.

Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the 10 preference of others to ourselves in the little daily occurrences of life. Chatham.

Good-breeding is surface Christianity. Holmes.

Good-breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. Chesterfield.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears least. Addison.

Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. Emerson.