Usages Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them… — Harriet Martineau
• A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it… — Edward Sapir
• The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time… — Joseph Butler
• People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time. — Steven Pinker
• I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of… — Jose Rizal
• One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought… — Albert Bushnell Hart

Who Wrote These Usages Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Usages Quotes as follows:

• 1 Usages Quote by Harriet Martineau
• 1 Usages Quote by Edward Sapir
• 1 Usages Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Usages Quote by Joseph Butler
• 1 Usages Quote by Steven Pinker
• 1 Usages Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 Usages Quote by Jose Rizal
• 1 Usages Quote by Albert Bushnell Hart