Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1971
AUTHOR:
Fanny Bowditch Dixwell Holmes (1840–1929)
QUOTATION:
Washington is full of famous men and the women they married when they were young.
ATTRIBUTION:
FANNY DIXWELL HOLMES, remark to President Theodore Roosevelt at the reception preceding a dinner at the White House in honor of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, January 8, 1903.—Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus, p. 362 (1944).
