Matron Quotes

11 quotes by 10 authors

INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the… — Ambrose Bierce
Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous. — William McFee
Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat. — Gelett Burgess
I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with… — Mark Twain
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. — Horace
Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her… — Abigail Van Buren
Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees… — John Greenleaf Whittier
For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with… — Vera Nazarian
A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he… — Maya Angelou
Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility. — William McFee
Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison matron, possibly at Buchenwald. She… — Harriet Van Horne

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