Edward Gibbon/early Life - 1737%e2%80%931752

Famous quotes containing the words gibbon, early and/or life:

    “The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    ““Never hug and kiss your children! Mother love may make your children’s infancy unhappy and prevent them from pursuing a career or getting married!” That’s total hogwash, of course. But it shows on extreme example of what state-of-the-art “scientific” parenting was supposed to be in early twentieth-century America. After all, that was the heyday of efficiency experts, time-and-motion studies, and the like.”
    —Lawrence Kutner (20th century)

    “There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)