Famous quotes containing the words plan, tower and/or house:
“Max Detweiler: I get a fiendish delight thinking of you as the mother of seven. How do you plan to do it?
The Baroness: Darling, havent you heard of a delightful little thing called boarding school?”
—Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)
“The tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.”
—Chinese proverb.
“In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her fathers house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husbands is almost a cloister.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)