Famous quotes containing the words main and/or wager:
“Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve othersfirst men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to ones own interests and desires. Carried to its perfection, it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.”
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)
“When Methodist preachers come down
A-preaching that drinking is sinful,
Ill wager the rascals a crown
They always preach best with a skinful.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?1774)
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