Schoolmarms Quotes & Sayings

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry. — Tommy Bond

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul. — Emile Durkheim

A boy is content to be made into a civil man by caning, or any one of a number of other stratagems, but a girl, being disqualified by Nature, as it were, from such physical brutality, must remain forever something of a terra incognita. Don't you think? — Alan Bradley

What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. — Iskander Mirza

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases. — David Brooks

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it. — P.G. Wodehouse

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come. — George Washington Carver

I was always the girl who had that baby face. — Jessica Capshaw

Harvard has enough panegyrists without me. — John Updike

My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go. — Deborah Roberts