A Quote by Jonathan Swift

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Jonathan Swift

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Best Bred Company Makes Man Persons Uneasy Whoever

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Jonathan Swift
Irish - Writer
November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Samuel Johnson

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Thomas Huxley

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

Johan Cruyff

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Astley Cooper

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Tim Ferriss

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Horace

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

George Eliot

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can't ever rub it off him.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Unfortunately, whoever brings the most money for the company gets all the chances, it's not about who's the best anymore.

Corey Anderson

I am AEW born and bred. I will be AEW until I die. This is my company. This is where I started. This is the company that I'll end in.

Maxwell Jacob Friedman

You know what makes me want to cry? I think, whoever the next Facebook is, why would you ever start that company here in the United States?

Heather Bresch

Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.

Emile Durkheim

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

William Congreve

The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.