1790s Women Quotes & Sayings

Profit is to business what breathing is to humans. Both are essential to survival, but just as breathing is not the purpose of life, so profit is not the purpose of business. — Margaret Benefiel

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement. — Jane Austen

Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our Lord even gives you suffering that you might share the comfort you receive from Him with somebody who is suffering! — J. Vernon McGee

It's part of Satan I think to say that this is "gay." It's anything but gay. — Michele Bachmann

Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me. — Gunther Schuller

I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch. — Gary Oldman

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own. — Barbara W. Tuchman

History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. — Anthony Robbins

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. — John McPhee

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music. — Rumi

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. — Eric Hoffer

Spurting out like formula from a colicky baby's mouth, drops ejected from boiled frosting boiling, preliminary spurts from Old Faithful before the earthquake. — Dennis Vickers

Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth ... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. — Gideon John Tucker