Legal Tender Act

Famous quotes containing the words legal, tender and/or act:

    “In ‘70 he married again, and I having, voluntarily, assumed the legal guilt of breaking my marriage contract, do cheerfully accept the legal penalty—a life of celibacy—bringing no charge against him who was my husband, save that he was not much better than the average man.”
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    “In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)