Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid? – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages. – Henry Ford, 1922, also sometimes quoted as “It is the customer that pays the wag
There are many persons pretending to have a refined literary taste, who seldom read any books but those which are fashionable… – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840