True Myth

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or myth:

“Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman—a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)