Undertake

Famous quotes containing the word undertake:

“I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a sewing machine, under pretense of advertising it, while she had never spent an hour in learning its use.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)