Second thoughts are best. God created man; woman was the after-thought.
_Proverb._
* * * * *
I have been ready to believe that we have seen a new revelation, and
the name of its Messiah is woman.
_Holmes._
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The whisper of a beautiful woman can be heard further than the loudest
call of duty.
_Anonymous._
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing-room is either a philosopher or
a fool.
_Balzac._
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Be circumspect in your liaisons with women. It is better to be seen at
the opera with this man than to be seen at mass with that woman.
_Mme. de Maintenon._
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Two women placed together make cold weather.
_Shakespeare._
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I have seen many instances of women running to waste and self-neglect,
and disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had been
exhaled to heaven.
_Washington Irving._
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Physical love is an ephemeral spark designed to kindle in human hearts
the flame of a more lasting love. It is the outer court of the temple.
_Sabatier._
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Between the mouth and the kiss, there is always time for repentance.
_Ricard._
* * * * *
Love decreases when it ceases to increase.
_Chateaubriand._
* * * * *
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become
intoxicated.
_De Musset._
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A woman never commands a man, unless he be a fool, but by her obedience.
_Turkish Spy._
* * * * *
Many benefit by the caresses they have not inspired; many a vulgar
reality serves as a pedestal to an ideal idol.
_Gautier._
* * * * *
In the highest society, as well as in the lowest, woman is merely an
instrument of pleasure.
_Tolstoi._
* * * * *
Women know at first sight the character of those with whom they
converse. There is much to give them a religious height to which men do
not attain.
_Emerson._
* * * * *
Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her
whom they most scorn.
_Buxton._
* * * * *
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
_Michelet._
* * * * *
Before going to war say a prayer; before going to sea say two prayers;
before marrying say three prayers.
_Proverb._
* * * * *
If marriages are made in Heaven you had but few friends there.
_Scotch Proverb._
* * * * *
A man should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for
a friend, were she a man.
_Joubert._
* * * * *
I think Nature and an angry God produced thee to the world, thou wicked
sex, to be a plague to man.
_Ariosto._
* * * * *
Women enjoy more the pleasure they give than the pleasure they feel.
_Rochepedre._
* * * * *
Woman’s tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust.
_Mme. Necker._
* * * * *
Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
_Bacon._
* * * * *
Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a
multitude with a few loaves and fishes.
_Legouvé._
* * * * *
On seeing a lady sitting at the dinner-table between two Bishops,
Sydney Smith inquired, “Her name is Susanna, I assume?”
* * * * *
With cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer
conquests but more durable ones.
_Dupuy._
* * * * *
Women who marry seldom act but once; their lot is, ere they wed,
obedience unto a father, thenceforth to a husband.
_Marston._
* * * * *
It is woman’s way. They always love colour better than form, rhetoric
better than logic, priestcraft better than philosophy, and flourishes
better than figures.
_Anonymous._
* * * * *
A prude exhibits her virtue in word and manner; a virtuous woman shows
hers in her conduct.
_La Bruyère._
* * * * *
Tears are the strength of women.
_Saint-Evremond._
* * * * *
A woman’s best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her
affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies rather than by her
knowledge.
_Smiles._
* * * * *
A woman’s thoughts run before her actions.
_Shakespeare._
* * * * *
It is valueless to a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty
unless young.
_La Rochefoucauld._
* * * * *
Silence and modesty are the best ornaments of women.
_Euripides._
* * * * *
The plainest man who pays attention to women will sometimes succeed as
well as the handsomest who does not.
_Colton._
* * * * *
A woman can be held by no stronger tie than the knowledge that she is
loved.
_Mme. de Motteville._
* * * * *
As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
_Addison._
* * * * *
Women are passive agents, and when love prompts them they can outsuffer
martyrs.
_Massinger._
* * * * *
Between two beings susceptible to love, the duration of love depends
upon the first resistance of the woman, or the obstacles that society
puts in their way.
_Balzac._
* * * * *
A woman (of the right kind) reading after a man, follows him as Ruth
followed the reapers of Boaz, and her gleanings are often the finest of
the wheat.
_Holmes._
* * * * *
To a woman of spirit, the most intolerable of all grievances is a
restraint on the liberty of the tongue.
_Junius._
* * * * *
If women were humbler men would be honester.
_Vanbrugh._
* * * * *
These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.
_Shakespeare._
* * * * *
Nature makes fools; women make coxcombs.
_Anonymous._
* * * * *
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl;
no hatred so intense or immovable as that of woman for woman.
_Landor._
* * * * *
Women are priestesses of the unknown.
_Anonymous._
* * * * *
To give you nothing and to make you expect everything, to dawdle on the
threshold of love while the doors are closed, this is all the science
of a coquette.
_De Bernard._
* * * * *
Men always say more evil of a woman than there really is; and there is
always more than is known.
_Mezeray._
* * * * *
Neither walls, nor goods, nor anything is more difficult to be guarded
than woman.
_Alexis._
* * * * *
Would you hurt a woman most, aim at her affections.
_Wallace._
* * * * *
A wise man ought often to admonish his wife, to reprove her seldom, but
never to lay hands on her.
_Marcus Aurelius._
* * * * *
A woman of honour should never suspect another of things she would not
do herself.
_Marguerite de Valois._
* * * * *
We only demand that a woman should be womanly; which is not being
exclusive.
_Leigh Hunt._
* * * * *
Man forsakes Christianity in his labours; woman cherishes it in her
solitudes and trials. Man lives by repelling, woman by enduring—and
here Christianity meets her.
_Channing._
* * * * *
It is not easy to be a widow; one must resume all the modesty of
girlhood, without being allowed even to feign ignorance.
_Mme. de Girardin._
* * * * *
A woman’s hopes are woven as sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
_George Eliot._
* * * * *
Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see
quicker.
_Buckle._
* * * * *
The more idle a woman’s hand, the more occupied her heart.
_Dubay._
* * * * *
Women speak easily of platonic love; but while they appear to esteem
it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilet that does not
drive platonism from our hearts.
_Ricard._
* * * * *
If woman did turn man out of Paradise, she has done her best ever since
to make it up to him.
_Sheldon._
* * * * *
A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor
anything that is worse than a bad one.
_Simonides._
* * * * *
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed
is as rottenness in his bones.
_Solomon._
* * * * *
How wisely it is constituted that tender and gentle women shall be our
earliest guides—instilling their own spirits.
_Channing._
* * * * *
Let woman stand upon her female character as upon a foundation.
_Lamb._
* * * * *
The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron are much
more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering
characters, or virago queens.
_Goldsmith._
* * * * *
A heart which has been domesticated by matrimony and maternity is as
tranquil as a tame bullfinch.
_Holmes._
* * * * *
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more
audacious.
_Karr._
* * * * *
A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart; one
is a jewel, the other a treasure.
_Napoleon I._
* * * * *
Women especially are to be talked to as below men and above children.
_Chesterfield._
* * * * *
When joyous, a woman’s licence is not to be endured; when in terror,
she is a plague.
_Æschylus._
* * * * *
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to
cure her of it.
_Lingrés._
* * * * *
When we speed to the devil’s house, woman takes the lead by a thousand
steps.
_Goethe._
* * * * *
When a woman pronounces the name of a man but twice a day, there may be
some doubt as to the nature of her sentiments; but three times!
_Balzac._
* * * * *
Women know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the
most consummate male courtier can do.
_Thackeray._
* * * * *
Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the
beholder.
_Zimmerman._
* * * * *
Woman alone knows true loyalty of affection.
_Schiller._
* * * * *
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their
weakness.
_Mme. du Deffand._
* * * * *
Women are apt to see chiefly the defects of a man of talent and the
merits of a fool.
_Anonymous._
* * * * *
Women have a perpetual envy of our vices; they are less vicious than
we, not from choice, but because we restrict them; they are the slaves
of order and fashion.
_Johnson._
* * * * *
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral
deficiencies hidden under the “dear deceit” of beauty.
_George Eliot._
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