Bernard Marshall Gordon/professional Life

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)