Irvine Burns Club

Famous quotes containing the words burns and/or club:

    “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
    —George Burns (b. 1896)

    “At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.”
    —“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, pp. 24-5 (January 1870)