Percentage/history

Famous quotes containing the words percentage and/or history:

“If marriages were made by putting all the men’s names into one sack and the women’s names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England.... If you can tell me of any trustworthy method of selecting a wife, I shall be happy to make use of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)