Famous quotes containing the words james, gordon and/or brown:
“Maternity is on the face of it an unsocial experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.”
—Emily James Putnam (1865–1944)
“A woman who ... gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover—but will sooner or later find a tyrant.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”
—Olympia Brown (1835–1900)