The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

Everyone wants to see a falling star and make all their wishes come true. My wish is to see only you, because you are the only star in my life.

We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.