
Quotes by Madame Curie
about action
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."
Quotes by Rose Macauley
"You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting."
Quotes by Hannah More
about Opera
"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."
Quotes by Dorothy Parker
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires."
Quotes by M. F. K. Fisher
"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters."
Quotes by Mrs Patrick Campbell Quotes by to George Bernard Shaw
"When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once."
Quotes by Laurie Jo Wojcik
"Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves."
Quotes by Harriet Braiker
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
Quotes by Virginia Woolf
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."
Quotes by Helen Rowland
"When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living."
Quotes by Irene Thomas
"It should be a very happy marriage --- they are both so much in love with him."
Quotes by Maggie Kuhn
"The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name."
Quotes by Margaret Mead
"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible."