Oh! The gladness of a woman when she is glad !
Oh ! the sadness of a woman when she is sad !
But the gladness of her gladness,
And the sadness of her badness,
Are nothing to her badness_
When she is bad !
-Anon.
Woman is the confusion of man.
-Proverb.
Such, Polly, are your sex- part truth, part fiction; all contradiction.
-Richard Savage.
Men who flatter women do not know them; men who abuse them still les.
-Mme de slam.
Next to God we are indebted to woman, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having.
-Bovee.
Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.
-Remy de Gourmont.
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produce better than a good one.
-Euripides.
Men say of women what please them; women do with men what please them.
-De segur.
Women’s styles may change, but their designs remain the same.
-Oscar Wilde.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
-Dr. Johson.
No matter hoe well a woman carries her years, she’s bound to drop a few sooner or later.
-E.Johnson.
Listen to a woman when she looks at you, but not when she talks to you.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
-James Stephen.
Woman is men’s perfume and poison too.
Ten measures of speech descended on the world; women took none and men one.
-Babylonian Talmud.
Women’s weapon: tear drops.
For never was it given to mortal men
To live so boldly as we women can.
-Pope.
The greatest water power know to humanity is woman’s tears.
Give God thy broken heart, He whole will make it:
Give woman thy whole heart, He whole will make it;
The tongue of women is their sword, and they take care not to let it rust.
For women are as roses, whose fair flower
Being once display’d doth fall that very hour.
-Shakespeare.
O Woman ! in our hours of ease
uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the quivering Aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel Thou !
-Scott.
Here’s to women ! Would that we could fall into their arms without into their hands.
-A. Bierce
A woman, a dog, A walnut-tree, The more you beat’em, the better they be.
-Thomas Fuller.
Women and music should never be dated.
There’s not a blessing or a woe,
There’s not a whisper, yes, or no,
There’s not a life, or death, or birth,
That has a feather’s weight of worth,
Without a woman a woman in it.
-Anon.
Woman is always fickle and changeable.
-Virgil.
If all the harm that women have done
Were put in a bundle and rolled into one,
Earth would not hold it,
The sky could not enfold it,
It could not be lighted or warmed by the sun.
-J.K. Stephen
In men, we various ruling passions find,
In women, two almost divide the kind;
Those, only fix’d, they first or last obey,
The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
-Pope
There is a tide in the affairs of women,
Which taken at the flo’od, leads-God knows where.
-Byron.
