Famous quotes containing the words bernard, marshall, gordon, professional and/or life:
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection—and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it—as their stay-at-home counterparts.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)
“And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but
The truth in masquerade.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Most of a modest woman’s life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)