Famous quotes containing the words live, birth and/or rate:
“Women of fashion and characterI do not mean absolutely unblemishedare a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“It suggested, too, that the same experience always gives birth to the same sort of belief or religion.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Strange that the vanity which accompanies beautyexcusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandableshould persist after the beauty was gone.”
—Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (18661941)