Basic Intent

Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or intent:

“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The intent of matrimony, is not for man and wife to be always taken up with each other, but jointly to discharge the duties of civil society, to govern their family with prudence, and educate their children with discretion.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany (June 1807)