Receive

Famous quotes containing the word receive:

“Even a poor man can receive honors.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“I do not want to be covetous, but I think I speak the minds of many a wife and mother when I say I would willingly work as hard as possible all day and all night, if I might be sure of a small profit, but have worked hard for twenty-five years and have never known what it was to receive a financial compensation and to have what was really my own.”
—Emma Watrous, U.S. inventor. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 8, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992)

“Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)