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The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
— Ashley Montagu
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.
— Elizabeth Montagu
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
— Ashley Montagu
We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
— Ashley Montagu
As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
— Ashley Montagu
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
— Ashley Montagu
Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
— Ashley Montagu
Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.
— Elizabeth Montagu
To be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
— Ashley Montagu
I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
— Ashley Montagu
To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.
— Elizabeth Montagu
The main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
— Ashley Montagu
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
— Elizabeth Montagu
I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...
— Elizabeth Montagu
Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?
— Elizabeth Montagu
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
— Ashley Montagu
True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
It's all been very interesting.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Science has proof without any certainty.Creationists have certainty without any proof. — Ashley Montagu
People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
— Mary Wortley Montagu
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
In short I will part with anything for you but you.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
— Ashley Montagu
The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.
— Elizabeth Montagu
Life is too short for a long story.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
One can never outlive one's vanity.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
— Ashley Montagu
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
General notions are generally wrong.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.
— Elizabeth Montagu
A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
— Ashley Montagu
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.
— Ashley Montagu
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
People never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
— Ashley Montagu
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.
— Ashley Montagu
To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.
— Ashley Montagu
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Forgive what you can't excuse ...
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Men are vile inconstant toads.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Hatred is love frustrated.
— Ashley Montagu
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.
— Elizabeth Montagu
One would suffer a great deal to be happy.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
— Ashley Montagu
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
— Ashley Montagu
You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
No one should be required to see America for the first time.
— Ashley Montagu
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
— Ashley Montagu
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. — Mary Wortley Montagu
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
— Ashley Montagu
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
— Elizabeth Montagu
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
— Ashley Montagu
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
— Ashley Montagu
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Civility costs nothing and buys everything
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people
— Mary Wortley Montagu