Withers Family

Famous quotes containing the words withers and/or family:

“Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife’s thrift, and that woman’s life has no other aim.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“One banquet in a rich family could feed a poor man’s family for half a year.”
—Chinese proverb.