Top 68 Quotes & Sayings by Ashley Montagu - Page 2

The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

No one should be required to see America for the first time.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.