Famous quotes containing the word deadening:
“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“Woman was originally the inventor, the manufacturer, the provider. She has allowed one office after another gradually to slip from her hand, until she retains, with loose grasp, only the so-called housekeeping.... Having thus given up one by one the occupations which required knowledge of materials and processes, and skill in using them ... she rightly feels that what’s left is mere deadening drudgery.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)