Marie de Gournay famous quotes

Ignorance is the mother of presumption
-- Marie de Gournay

#Mother #Ignorance #Presumption

Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.
-- Marie de Gournay

#Sex #Forbidden #Reader

whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.
-- Marie de Gournay

#God #Stupid #Philosopher

the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay.
-- Marie de Gournay

#Quality #Important #Belief

If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal ...
-- Marie de Gournay

#Jesus #Sex #Pride

certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.
-- Marie de Gournay

#Sex #Taken #Female

Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.
-- Marie de Gournay

#Wise #Sex #Women

The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.
-- Marie de Gournay

#Cat #Animal #Female

Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know you’ve shed over holding your mother’s piece of satin. The tears you’ve shed over each loss you’ve experienced. But it also represents the tears we’ve both shed as we’ve felt the little life inside you begin to move. The tears I’ve shed over the fact I’ve been given someone like you to love. I never imagined anyone like you Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you I’m humbled that you chose me. This is your something blue. I love you, Rush

When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

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 times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

Ignorance is the mother of presumption