Famous quotes containing the words west, australian and/or botany:
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to pick the one I never tried before.”
—Mae West (1892–1980)
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)
“...some sort of false logic has crept into our schools, for the people whom I have seen doing housework or cooking know nothing of botany or chemistry, and the people who know botany and chemistry do not cook or sweep. The conclusion seems to be, if one knows chemistry she must not cook or do housework.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)