Famous quotes containing the words white, rose and/or society:
“Lately
Ive been looking at old-fashioned plaids, fingering
Starched white collars, wondering whether theres a way
To get them really white again. My wife
Thinks Im in OsloOslo, France, that is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather than achievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.”
—Phyllis Rose (b. 1942)
“T is worse, and tragic, that no man is fit for society who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is a cripple.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)