Famous quotes containing the words noel, pearson, australian, lawyer, views, reforming and/or constitution:
“All tragedies are finished by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.”
—Hesketh Pearson (1887–1964)
“Each Australian is a Ulysses.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.”
—Mario Puzo (b. 1920)
“Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more—an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that “we, the people,” should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?”
—Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)