Famous quotes containing the words uniform, naming and/or convention:
“We know, Mr. Wellerwe, who are men of the worldthat a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sisters friends cant or wont. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (18791944)
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