Famous quotes containing the words weekly, rest, industry and/or convention:
“No—is a term very frequently employed by the fair, when they mean everything else but a negative. Their yes is always yes; but their no is not always no.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. M, Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 203 (April 1803)
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.