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 Epigrams on Wosnan, 
 Love, ^b. n d BeoLUty 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 Until some fortunate being — wit^ student^ and 
 man of the world {he will have to be all 
 three) — can^ in a cunningly chosen library^ 
 write the history of the Epgram^ and the 
 birth and growth of epigrammatic thought^ 
 we shall always be in doubt as to what an 
 epigram isy and most people will be in doubt 
 as to where the best epigrams are. The word 
 itself is as difficult to define as its own es- 
 sences- — wit^ humour^ style^ etc. We recognise 
 the epigram when uttered or printed just as 
 swiftly as we recognise beauty in a woman^ 
 yet rarely can we describe either. The sheer 
 study that awaits the historian of the Epigram 
 haSy doubtless y been a great deterrent; he 
 would have to consider epigrams from the 
 
PREFACE 
 
 Bible and the apocryphal writings down- 
 wards! In ''^ Woman and the TVits'' I kave 
 brought together some of the wisest^ wittiest^ 
 and tenderest epigrams^ proverbs^ axioms^ 
 adages or shorty pithy sentences— call them 
 what you will — relating to the woman and 
 women^ and also to the passions^ affections^ 
 sentiments^ and emotions generally. 
 
 My thanks are aue principally to Mr, 
 Morton and Mr, Du Bois for many excellent 
 epigrams and for hints as to arrangement, 
 
 G, F. MONKSHOOD. 
 
 London, 1 8pp. 
 
Woman and the Wits 
 
 Second thoughts are best. Gkxi created maD; 
 
 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. 
 
 The whisper of a beautiful woman can be 
 heard further than the loudest call of duty. 
 
 Anonymoiis. 
 
 The man who enters his wife's dressing-room 
 
 \s either a philosopher or a fool. 
 
 Balzac. 
 
 Be circumspect in your liaisons with women. 
 It is better to be seen at the opera, with this 
 man th&n to be seen at mass with that woman. 
 
 Mme, de MaitUenon. 
 
Two women pltM^ed together make cold weather. 
 
 Shake^eare. 
 
 I have seen many instances of women running 
 to waste and self-neglect, and disappearing gradu- 
 ally from the earth, almost as if they had been 
 
 exhaled to heaven. 
 
 Washington Irving. 
 
 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. 
 
 Between the mouth and the kiss, there is 
 always time for repentance. Eicard. 
 
 Love decreases when it ceases to increase. 
 
 Chateaubricmd, 
 
 Partake of love as a temperate man partakes 
 of wine; do not become intoxicated. 
 
 De Mussel, 
 
 A woman never commands a man, unless he 
 be a fool, but by her obedience. 
 
 Turkish Spy. 
 
SSEoman antr t^t WBiiB 
 
 Many benefit by the caresses they have not 
 inspired; many a vulgar reality serves as a 
 pedestal to. an ideal idol. GaiUier. 
 
 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. 
 
(BHcman antr tje WBitB 
 
 A man should choose for a wife only such a woman 
 I 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 mst, Mme. Necker. 
 
 Wife and children are a kind of discipline ol 
 humanity. Bacon, 
 
 Feminine charity renews every day the miracle 
 of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves 
 and fishes, Legouvd, 
 
 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. Ma/rston. 
 
 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 Bruyhre, 
 
 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 refresb- 
 ment 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 Mochefoucauld» 
 
 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 MotteviUe, 
 
 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 theii 
 tongues. Shakespea/re, 
 
 Nature makes fools ; women make coxcombs. 
 
 Arumymous. 
 
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. 
 
 Anonymoui, 
 
 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 Bema/rd, 
 
 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 
 affeotionflL 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 HunL 
 
 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. 
 
 Cha/mning, 
 
 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 Gira/rdin, 
 
 A woman's hopes are woven as sunbeams; » 
 
 shadow annihilates them. 
 
 George JSlioL 
 
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. Dvhay. 
 
 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. Rxcard. 
 
 If woman did turn man oat of Paradise, she 
 has donfi her best ever since to make it up to him. 
 
 Skddon, 
 
 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 bonok Solomon. 
 
How wisely it is constituted that tender and 
 gentle women shall be our earliest guides — instill- 
 ing 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 char- 
 acters, or virago queens. Goldsmith. 
 
 A heart which has been domesticated by matri- 
 mony and maternity is as tranquil as a tame 
 bullfinch. Holmes. 
 
 li 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, 
 
 II 
 
?l2aoman antr tje ^IHite 
 
 Women especially are to be talked to aa below 
 men and above children. Chesterfield, 
 
 When joyous, a woman's licence is not to be 
 endured ; when in terror, she is a plague. 
 
 ^schyliLS, 
 
 Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, 
 since we do all we can to cure her of it. 
 
 Lingr6e, 
 
 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 dt<ubt as to 
 the nature of her sentiments ; but three times ! 
 
 BalzcbC, 
 
 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, 
 
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"Woman alone knows true loyalty of affection. 
 
 SMUer, 
 
 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. 
 
 I detest those women who mount the pulpit 
 and lay their passions bare. 
 
 Eugenie de Guerin, 
 
Of all men, Adam was the happiest ; he had no 
 mother-in-law. Parfait. 
 
 Beloved darlings, who cover over and shadow 
 many malicious purposes with a counterfeit passion 
 of dissimulate sorrow and unquietness. 
 
 Sir Walter Raleigh, 
 
 A mother's tenderness and caresses are the 
 milk of the heart, Eugenie de Gu^n, 
 
 Lovers have in their language an infinite nnmher 
 of words in which each syllable is a caress. 
 
 Bochepedre. 
 
 To love is the least of the faults of a loving 
 woman. La Rochefoucauld. 
 
 What is it that renders friendship between 
 women so lukewarm and of so short a duration? 
 It is the interests of love and the jealousy of 
 ccmquest. Rousseau, 
 
There is nothing in love but what we Imagine. 
 
 St. Beuve. 
 
 I am a Btrennons advocate for liberty and pro- 
 perty, but when these rights are invaded by a 
 pretty woman, I am neither able to defend my 
 money nor my freedom. Junius, 
 
 There are more people who wish to be loved 
 than there are who are willing to love, 
 
 Chamfort, 
 
 To edncate a man is to form an individual who 
 leaves nothing behind him j to educate a woman 
 is to form future generations. 
 
 Lahoulaye, 
 
 There are no women to whom virtue comes 
 easier than those who possess no attractions. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 In courting women, many dry wood for a fire 
 that wiU not bum for them. Balzac 
 
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It is no more possible to do without a wife than 
 it is to dispense with eating and drinking. 
 
 Luther. 
 
 God created the coquette as soon as he made 
 the fool. Victor Hugo, 
 
 The sweetest thing in life is the unclouded 
 welcome of a wife. WiUU. 
 
 Trust not a woman, even when dead. 
 
 LcUin Proverb, 
 
 I have seen more than one woman drown her 
 honour in the clear water of diamonds. 
 
 Comtesse dHoudetot, 
 
 Who trusts himself to woman or to waves should 
 never hazard what he fears to lose. 
 
 Oldndason, 
 
 It is vanity that renders the youth of women 
 culpable and their old age ridiculous. 
 
 Mnie, de t^ionaa. 
 
HHoman antr i^t W&iitsi 
 
 There are three things that women throw away 
 -their time, their money, and their health. 
 
 Madame Geoffrin. 
 
 The pleasant man a woman will desire for her 
 own sake, but the languishing lover has nothing 
 XX) hope from but her pity. Steele, 
 
 "Woman is an overgrown child that one amuses 
 with toys, intoxicates with flattery, and seduces 
 with promises. Sophie Arnould. 
 
 True modesty protects a woman better than her 
 garments. Anonymous. 
 
 Woman is the sweetest present that God ha« 
 given to man. Guya/td. 
 
 Coquetry is the desire to please, without the 
 want of love. Mochepedre. 
 
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Before marriage, woman is a queen; after 
 marriage, a subject. De Maintenon. 
 
 Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a 
 woman, more contemptible and more dangerous 
 than a courtesan who never lies. 
 
 2)e Ya/rennea. 
 
 The test of civilisation is the estimate of woman 
 
 Cwtis, 
 
 Provided a woman be well-prindpled she has 
 dowry enough. Plautus, 
 
 The more women have risked, the more they 
 are willing to sacrifice. DttcloM* 
 
 %, flattered woman is always indulgent. 
 
 Chenier. 
 
 Beauty is the eye*s food and the soul's sorrow. 
 
 Otrmtm Fraverb. 
 
?i2aoman anb tf^t WHin 
 
 Some cunning men choose fools for their wives, 
 thinking to manage them, but they always fail. 
 
 Johnson. 
 
 A termagant wife may, therefore, in some re- 
 spects be considered a tolerable blessing. 
 
 Washington Irving. 
 
 Divination seems heightened to its highest 
 power in woman. Bronson Alcott. 
 
 Silence has been given to woman to better ex- 
 press her thoughts. Besnoyers. 
 
 The society of women endangers men's morals 
 and refines their manners. 
 
 Montesquieu. 
 
 Women are supernumerary when present, and 
 missed when absent. 
 
 Portuguese Proverb. 
 
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The virtuous woman who falls in love is much 
 to be pitied. La Rochefoucauld. 
 
 A coquette is mor*^ occupied with the homage 
 we refuse her than with what we bestow upon 
 hw. Dupuy. 
 
 Women are extremiPtfc ; they are either better 
 or worse than men. La Bruyere, 
 
 Woman is the crime of man. She has been 
 his victim since Eden. She wears on her flesh the 
 trace of six thousand years of injustice. 
 
 Socrates studied under Aspasia, and Aspasia 
 governed the world under the name of Pericles. 
 
 Houasa/y^ 
 
 The erne who has read the book that is called 
 woman knows more than the one who has grown 
 pale in libraries. ffoussaye. 
 
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Woman is the eighth capital sin, but she is 
 perhaps the fourth theological virtue. 
 
 All passions are good when one masters them, ^ 
 
 Bousseau, 
 
 Consideration for woman is the measure of a 
 nation's progress in social life. 
 
 Gregoire, 
 
 There is something of woman in everything 
 that pleases. Dupaty. 
 
 No man has yet discovered the means of giving 
 successfully friendly advice to women — ^not even 
 to his own. Balzac. 
 
 The anger of a woman is the greatest evil with 
 which one can threaten enemies. 
 
 ChiOon. 
 
^ISEoman anlr tljt 91Htt0 
 
 I would have a woman as true as death. At 
 the first real lie that works from the heart out- 
 ward, she should be tenderly chloroforiQed into a 
 better world. Holmes. 
 
 There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a 
 chaste and virtuous woman. Cervantes. 
 
 Nature has given to women fortitude enough 
 to resist a certain time, but not enough to resist 
 completely the inclination which they cherish. 
 
 Dorat. 
 
 Without woman the two extremes of life would 
 be without succour, and the middle without 
 pleasure. AnonyinoiM. 
 
 In all eras and aU climes a woman of great 
 genius or beauty has done what she chose. 
 
 Ouida. 
 
 He that hath wife and children hath given 
 hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments 
 to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. 
 
 JBcKon. 
 
?12aoman anlr tjf WBit^ 
 
 A woman would be in despair if Nature had 
 fonned her as fashion makes her appear. 
 
 McUle. de Lespinasse. 
 
 The resistance of a woman is not always a proof 
 of her virtue, but more frequently of her ex- 
 perience. Ninon de VEnclos, 
 
 What a wilful, wayward thing is woman ! 
 Even in their best pursuits so loose of soul that 
 every breath of passion shakes their frame. 
 
 Francis, 
 
 The love of woman is universally for one man. 
 Even though degraded, half-unsexed, outcast, 
 abandoned to despair, she inflexibly seeks her 
 individual own. Broume, 
 
 Rascal ! that word on the lips of a woman, 
 addressed to a too daring man, often means angel ! 
 
 Anonymous, 
 
 Why should man, who is strong, always get the 
 best of it, and be forgiven so much ; and woman 
 who is weak, get the worst and be forgiven so 
 Uttlel Mrs W. K, Clifford. 
 
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Women. Their love first inspires the poet, 
 and their praise is his best reward. 
 
 Hohne», 
 
 Women have no worse enemies than women. 
 
 With what hope can we endeavour to persuade 
 the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost 
 in vanity. Johnson, 
 
 A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never 
 miss the road to the throne of all bounty. 
 
 Beechar, 
 
 Yenus always saves the lover whom she leads. 
 
 DeUUouchB* 
 
 A good-tempered woman, of the order yclept 
 buxom, not only warrants a pair of expansive 
 shooldera, but bespeaks our approbation of them. 
 
 Leigh Sunk 
 
Men lore at first and most warmly; women 
 love last and longest. This is natural enough; 
 for nature makes women to be won and men to 
 win. Curtis, 
 
 What wo call in men wisdom is in women 
 prudence. It is a partiality to call one greater 
 than the other. Steele, 
 
 An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty 
 is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery. 
 
 Chesterfield, 
 
 Women who have not fine teeth laugh only with 
 their eyes. Mme, de Bieux, 
 
 Women generally consider consequences in love, 
 sddom in resentment. Caiton, 
 
 Woo the widow whilst she is in weeds. 
 
 Qermam FroTjm^ 
 
USaoman anti tfte ^MiU 
 
 Wounds of the heart ! your traces are bitter, 
 alow to heal, and always ready to re-open. 
 
 De Musset. 
 
 The head is always the dupe of the heart. 
 
 La Rochefoucauld. 
 
 O women ! yon are very extraordinary children, 
 
 Diderot. 
 
 There are different kinds of love, but they have 
 all the same aim : possession. 
 
 Boqueplan. 
 
 A man who can love deeply is never utterly 
 contemptible. Balzac^ 
 
 If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes 
 it from wits. A, Karr. 
 
 The great defect in men is that they never put 
 themselves in the place of the woman they judge. 
 
 Mme. D^Epinay. 
 
SSSoman ant) ti)e Wiitsi 
 
 There is not a love, however violent it may be, 
 to which ambition and interest do not add some- 
 thing. La Bruyhre. 
 
 A man philosophises better than a woman on 
 the human heart, but she reads the hearts of men 
 better than he. Rousseau. 
 
 What a woman should demand of a man in 
 courtship, or after it, is, first, respect for her, as 
 she is a woman ; and next to that, to be respected 
 by him above all other women. 
 
 Lamb. 
 
 A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect 
 workmanship of God, the true glory of angels, the 
 rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the 
 world. Hermes. 
 
 Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet 
 sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin 
 shine through. Euffini. 
 
 If we wish to know the political and moral con- 
 dition of a State, we must ask what rank women 
 hold in it. Their influence embraces the whole of 
 life. Aimi Martin. 
 
A woman, — where can she put her hope in 
 storms, if not in Heaven f Mitchell. 
 
 Woman's heart is like a Kthographer*s stone, — 
 what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed 
 out. Thackeray/, 
 
 The lives of a multitude of women all around ns 
 contain a large element of unsuccessful outward or 
 inward ambitions, — vain attempts and prayers. 
 
 Alger. 
 
 An ideal type, in which meekness, gentleness, 
 patience, humility, faith and love are the most 
 prominent features, is not naturally male, but 
 female. Lecky. 
 
 Even though the wife be little, bow down to her 
 in speaking. Talmud, 
 
 The Tainest woman is never thoroughly con- 
 scious of her own beauty till she is loved by the 
 who sets her own passion vibrating in return 
 
 George MioL 
 
Tis a terrible thing that we cannot wish young 
 ladies well without wishing them to become old 
 women. Johnson. 
 
 We men have no right to say it, but the omni- 
 potence of Eve is in humility. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 Rejected lovers need never despair ! There are 
 f our-and-twenty hours in a day, and not a moment 
 in the twenty-four in which » woman may not 
 change her mind. De Finod, 
 
 There are few husbands whom the wife cannot 
 
 win in the long run by patience and love, unless 
 
 they are harder than the rocks which the soft 
 
 water penetrates in time. 
 
 Ma/rgtierite de VcUois. 
 
 ^e only true and firm friendship is that be- 
 tween man and woman, because it is the only 
 affection exempt from actual or possible rivalry. 
 
 A, ConUe, 
 
 The yoke of love is sometimes heavier than that 
 of aU the virtues. Montaigne, 
 
Love is the poetry of the senses. 
 
 BiOasae. 
 
 Love is the beginning, the middle and the end 
 of everything. * Lacordaire. 
 
 Women are constantly the dupes, or the victims 
 of their extreme sensitiveness. Balzac. 
 
 When a man says he has a wife, it means that 
 a wife has him. Gavarni, 
 
 Woman is more constant in hatred than in love. 
 
 Atwnymoua, 
 
 A woman dies twice ; the day that she quits life 
 and the day that she ceases to please. 
 
 We%88. 
 
 Love is the association of two beings for the 
 benefit of one. Countens Nathcdxe. 
 
What ft woman wills, God wills. 
 
 Proverb. 
 
 Some women kindle emotion so rapidly in a 
 man's heart, that the judgment cannot keep pace 
 with it. Hardy, 
 
 The Bible says that woman is the last thing 
 which Gk>d made. He must haye made it on 
 Saturday night. It shows fatigue. 
 
 Dumaa. 
 
 Woman's power is for rule, not for battle ; and 
 her intellect is not for invention or creation, but 
 for iweet ordering, arrangement and decision. 
 
 Woman is a delightful musical instrument, of 
 which love is the bow and man the artist. 
 
 BayU, 
 
 Fit the same intellect to a man, and it is a bow- 
 string J to a woman, and it is a harpstring. 
 
 EolmsM» 
 
A clip of a wife roasts her husband, stout- 
 hearted though he may be, without a fire, and 
 
 hands him over to premature old age. 
 
 Eedod. 
 
 There are three things I have always loved and 
 have never understood — painting, music, and 
 woman. Fontenelh. 
 
 Learned women have lost all credit by their im- 
 pertinent talkativeness and conceit. 
 
 Swift. 
 
 The coquette c<>mpromises her reputation, and 
 
 sometimes even her virtue; the prude, on the 
 
 contrary, often sacrifices h©r honour in private, 
 
 and preserves it in public. 
 
 Mme. du Socage, 
 
 When a woman has explicitly condemned a given 
 action, she apparently gathers courage for its com- 
 mission under a little different conditions. 
 
 HoweOs. 
 
 The homage of a man may be delightful until 
 he asks straight for love, by which woman renders 
 homage. Oeorge Mid, 
 
HHoman anii t])$ Witt» 
 
 The Divine Right of Beauty is the only one an 
 Englishman ought to acknowledge, and a pretty 
 woman is the only tyrant he is not authorised to 
 resist. Junius, 
 
 The beauty of a lovely woman is like music. 
 
 George MioL 
 
 If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in 
 purity, in goodness, it is woman. 
 
 Wo/rd Beecher, 
 
 God created woman only to tame man. 
 
 Voltaire. 
 
 O woman ! it is thou that causeth the tempests 
 that agitate mankind. Eousseau. 
 
 The laughter, the tears, and the song of a 
 
 woman are equally deceptive. 
 
 LcUin Proverb. 
 
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A woman's lot is made for her by the love she 
 accepts. George Eliot, 
 
 Woman is an idol that man worships until he 
 throws it down. Anonymous. 
 
 She who dresses for others besides her husband, 
 marks herself a wanton. Ewripides. 
 
 With soft persuasive prayers woman wields the 
 sceptre of the life which she charmeth. 
 
 SchiOer, 
 
 Men are the cause of women's dislike for one 
 another. La Bruyh-e. 
 
 The beautiful woman always gives me joy, and 
 high mind, too, if I think what she does for me, 
 
 Eeinnuir. 
 
"Women have the genius of charity. A man 
 gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her 
 sympathy. Legouv^. 
 
 A woman's preaching is like a dog*s walking on 
 his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are 
 surprised to find it done at aU. 
 
 Johnson. 
 
 The only way to get the upper hand of a 
 woman, is to be more woman than she is herself. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 The devastating egotism of man is properly 
 foreign to woman ; though there are many women 
 as haughty, hard and imperious as any man. 
 
 Alger, 
 
 There are some women who think virtue was 
 given them as claws were given to cats — to do 
 nothing but scratch with. JerrM, 
 
 An immodest woman is food without salt. 
 
 Ardbicm Proverb, 
 
The evil in women is usually communicated by 
 men. Much of the deceit of which they are 
 accused is the effect of masculine inoculation. 
 
 BraufM, 
 
 The lover never sees personal resemblances in 
 his mistress to her kindred or to others. 
 
 Emerson, 
 
 The friendship of a man is often a support; 
 that of a woman is always a consolation. 
 
 Eochepedre, 
 
 Woman is the blood royal of life ; let there be 
 slight degrees of precedence among them, but let 
 them all be sacred. Bunu, 
 
 The woman who is resolved to be respected 
 can ms^e herself to be so, even amidst an army 
 of soldiers. Cervamies, 
 
 To form devices quick is woman's wit. 
 
 Bwr%fid99. 
 
Woman's power is over the affections. A 
 beautiful dominion is herSj but she risks its 
 forfeiture when she seeks to extend it. 
 
 To remain virtuous, a man has only to combat 
 his own desires; a woman must resist her own 
 inclinations and the continual attack of man. 
 
 De Latena. 
 
 A cunning woman is a knavish fool. 
 
 I^ttleton, 
 
 A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, 
 when she only regrets the love. 
 
 La Rochefoucauld, 
 
 Even the satyrs, like men, in on© way or 
 another, could win the love of a woman. 
 
 Malcolm Johnson, 
 
 Yon wish to create Eve over again, or rather 
 to call forth a female Adam. I object. 
 
 Sheldon. 
 
Let a man pray that none of his womau-kind 
 Bhould form a just estimation of him. 
 
 Thackeray, 
 
 In love, she who gives her portrait promises the 
 original. Dupuy. 
 
 The man who seems to care little whether he 
 charms or attracts women is he who offends and 
 seduces. Goethe. 
 
 To correct the faults of man, we address the 
 head ; tb correct those of woman, we address the 
 heart. De BeaiLchene. 
 
 The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers '. 
 he woman goes to work softly with & cloth. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant 
 mourning of happiness. 
 
 Mm6,deStaeL 
 
 Z^ 
 
Women have more of what is termed good 
 
 sense than men. They cannot reason wrong, for 
 they do not reason at all. Hazlitt, 
 
 In anger against a rival, all women, even 
 duchesses, employ invective. Then they make 
 use of everything as a weapon. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 What is civilisation? I answer, the power of 
 good women. Emerson. 
 
 Science seldom renders men amiable; women, 
 never. Beajuchi'ae. 
 
 The egotism of woman is always for two. 
 
 Mme, de Stael. 
 
 The wiseat woman you talk with is ignorant of 
 something that you know, but an elegant woman 
 never forgets her elegance. Holmes. 
 
 39 
 
A widow is like a frigate of which the first 
 captain has been shipwrecked. Karr, 
 
 Where women are, are all kinds of mischief. 
 
 Mencmder, 
 
 Woman is the symbol of moral and physical 
 beauty. Oautier, 
 
 No man knows what the wife of his bosom is — 
 no man knows what a ministering angel she is — 
 until he has gone with her through the fiery trials 
 of this world. Washington Irving^ 
 
 Women have, in general, but one object^ which 
 is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery 
 is too gross for them. Chesterfield. 
 
 If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face 
 of the whd© world would have been changed. 
 
A worthless girl has enslaved me,— mp^ whom 
 no enemy ever did. Epictetus, 
 
 An indigent female, the object probably of love 
 and tenderness in her youth, at a more advanced 
 age a withered flower, has nothing to do but 
 retire and die. Hall, 
 
 In love affairs, from innocence to the fault, 
 there is but a kiss. Alheric Second, 
 
 The destiny of women is to please, to be 
 amiable, and to be loved. Bochebrune, 
 
 A beautiful woman is the paradise of the eyes, 
 the hell of the soul, and the purgatory of the 
 purse. Anonymous. 
 
 If you would make a pair of good shoes, take for 
 the sole the tongue of a woman ; it never wears 
 ovL Alsaticm Proverb* 
 
^Kaoman anl) tje Wiit^ 
 
 One is always a woman's first lover. 
 
 De Laclos. 
 
 A man must be a fool who does not succeed in 
 
 ers her. 
 Balzac. 
 
 making a woman believe that which flatters her, 
 
 1 have seen faces of women that were fair to 
 look upon, yet one could see that the icicles were 
 forming round these women's hearts. 
 
 Solmes. 
 
 The highest mark of esteem a woman can give 
 a man is to ask his friendship, and the most 
 signal proof of her indifference is to offer him 
 hers. Anonynhous, 
 
 The fire of woman's passion, consuming the 
 
 wilderness of her limitation, rises to the pure flame 
 that has blazed on every altar of Eros between 
 the Nile and the Columbis. Broume, 
 
 Frailty 1 thy name is woman, 
 
 Shakespeami 
 
The tears of a young widow lose their bitterness; 
 when wiped by the hands of love. 
 
 Anonymotu, 
 
 She could not reconcile the anxieties of spiritual 
 life, involving eternal consequences, with a keen 
 interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of 
 drapery. George Eliot. 
 
 Yenns herself if she were bald, would not be 
 Yenus. Apuleius. 
 
 Women often deceive to conceal what they 
 feel ; men to simulate what they do not feel— love. 
 
 Legouv^. 
 
 Women are the happiest beings of the creation ; 
 in compensation for our services, they reward us 
 with a happiness of which they retain more than 
 half. De Varennes. 
 
 No woman is too silly not to have a genius for 
 spitOi , Anonymous, 
 
 43 
 
Hl^oman antr tf)e Wiit$i 
 
 There is no compensation for the woman who 
 feels that the chief relation of her life has been a 
 mistake. She has lost her crown. 
 
 George Miot 
 
 There are plenty of women who believe women 
 to be incapable of anything but to cook, incapable 
 of interest in affairs. Emerson. 
 
 A woman is happy and attains all that she 
 desires when she captivates a man; hence the 
 great object <^ her life is to master the art of 
 captivating men. Tolstoi, 
 
 The secret of youthful looks in an aged face is 
 easy shoes, easy corsets and an easy conscience. 
 
 Anonyimous. 
 
 Who does not know the bent of woman's fancy ? 
 
 Spenser. 
 
 Love makes mutes of those who habitually 
 speak most fluently. De Saitderu 
 
WS^omm mti tfie Wiit» 
 
 Every great passion is bnt a prolonged hop^ 
 
 Feucheres, 
 
 Beanty in woman is power. 
 
 De Botrou. 
 
 We are by no means aware how much we are 
 influenced by our passions. 
 
 La HochefoiicaiUd. 
 
 To love is to admire with the heart ; to admire 
 is to love with the mind. Gautier, 
 
 Glances are the first billets-doux of love, 
 
 £>e VEncloa. 
 
 Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under 
 the wrinkles of age ; one is lost in them, the other 
 hiddoiL FeHt-tSenn. 
 
Where pride begins, love ends. 
 
 Lavater, 
 
 The girl who wakes the poet's sigh is a very 
 different creature from the girl who makes his 
 Boup. Sheldont 
 
 Women know a point more than the deviL 
 
 Italian Proverb, 
 
 To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right 
 of her sex. Lytton, 
 
 Bid you ever hear of a man's growing lean by 
 the reading of '*Eomeo and Juliet," or blowing 
 his brains out because Desdemona was maligned ! 
 
 Holmes, 
 
 Great women belong to history and to self- 
 saorifice. Leigh Runt, 
 
^4 Oman mt tljt miitn 
 
 The heart of a coquette is like a rose, of which 
 the lovers pluck the leaves, leaving only the 
 thorns for the husband. Anonymous. 
 
 In our age women commonly preserve the 
 publication of their good offices and their vehe- 
 ment ajffection toward their husbands until they 
 have lost th^m. Montaigne. 
 
 When women cannot be revenged, they do as 
 children do — they then cry, Cardcm. 
 
 At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than 
 of women ; he is more in love witii the sex than 
 with the individual, however charming she may 
 be. La JSretonne. 
 
 The man who has taken one wife deserves a 
 crown of patience; the man who has taken two 
 deserves two crowns of pity. Proverb. 
 
 The knowledge of the charms one possesses 
 prompts one to utilise them. 
 
 SSno/neoiirt. 
 
There is no more agreeable companion than the 
 one woman who loves us. St Pierre, 
 
 Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the 
 brother of the angels. Bovfflers. 
 
 Men bestow compliments only on women who 
 deserve none, Bachi, 
 
 Twx> smiles that approach each other end in a 
 kisa. Hugo. 
 
 There is in every true woman's heart a spark of 
 
 heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark 
 
 hours of adversity. 
 
 WckshingtoTh Irving. 
 
 A woman is never displeased if we please several 
 other women, provided she is preferred. It is so 
 many more triumphs ifx her. 
 
There is a woman at the beginning of all great 
 things. Lamm'tine. 
 
 Women prefer ns to say a little evil of them, 
 rather than to say nothing of them at all. 
 
 JRicard. 
 
 One syllable of woman's speech can dissolve 
 more of love than a man's heart can hold. 
 
 Eolmea, 
 
 Women, deceived by men, want to marry them ; 
 it is a kind of revenge, as good as any other. 
 
 Beaumanoir. 
 
 A woman is seldom tenderer to a man than 
 immediately after she has deceived him. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 Women like balls and assemblies, as a hunter 
 likes a place where game abounds. 
 
 De Latency 
 
 49 
 
Fortune rules in nuptials ; women are as like to 
 turn out badly as to prove a source of joy. 
 
 Uu7'ipides. 
 
 One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to 
 cause regret. Chevalier, 
 
 Man without woman is head without body ; 
 woman without man is body without head. 
 
 German Proverb. 
 
 Wrinkles disfigure a woman less than ill-nature. 
 
 DupuT^, 
 
 I am sure I do not mean it an injury to women 
 when I say there is a sort of sex in souls. 
 
 Steele. 
 
 A woman, when she has passed forty becomes 
 an illegible scrawl ; only an old woman is capable 
 of divining old women. Bijdzac. 
 
A beautiful woraan is never silly ; she has the 
 best wit that a man may ask of a woman, she is 
 pretty. StcM. 
 
 All the reasons of men are not worth one 
 sentiment of woman. Voltaire. 
 
 A man never knows how to live until a woman 
 has lived with him. Mere, 
 
 It may not be impossible to find a constant 
 heart in an unfaithful body. StaM, 
 
 Women may be pardoned for lack of commor 
 sense. The culprit in them is the heart. 
 
 StaM. 
 
 The history of love would be the history of 
 humanity ; it would be a beautiful book to write. 
 
 Nodier. 
 
MEoman antr tU SSatte 
 
 Love is composed of so raany sensations, that 
 something new of it can always be said. 
 
 Saint Prosper. 
 
 A woman is frank when she is not uselessly 
 untruthful. France. 
 
 Jealousy for a woman is only a wound to self- 
 respect. In man it is a torture profound as moral 
 suffering, continuous as physical suffering. 
 
 France. 
 
 Love preserves beauty, and the flesh of woman 
 is fed with caresses as are bees with flowers. 
 
 France. 
 
 Every lover who tries to find in love anything 
 else than love is not a lover. Bowrget. 
 
 One mast be sensual to be hi 
 
 Franoe, 
 
 5« 
 
When a lover gives, he demands — and much 
 more than he has given. Farry. 
 
 In most men there is a dead poet whom the 
 man survives. 8t Beuve. 
 
 The Egyptian people, wisest then of nations, 
 gave to their Spirit of Wisdom the form of a 
 woman ; and into her hand, for a symbol, the 
 weaver's shuttle. Buskin. 
 
 3i 
 
 The life of a woman can be divided into three 
 epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the 
 second she experiences it, in the third she regrets 
 it, Saint-Prosper. 
 
 The ruses of women multiply with their years. 
 
 Proverb. 
 
 Women wish to be loved, not because they are 
 pretty or good or well-bred or graceful or intelli- 
 gent, but because they are themselves. 
 
 Amid. 
 
Society depends upon women. The nations who 
 confine them are unsociable. Voltaire. 
 
 A beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble 
 man is the most perfect tiling in nature. 
 
 La Bruyere. 
 
 Woman, in accordance with her unbroken, 
 clear-seeing nature, loses herself and what she has 
 of heart and happiness in the object she loves. 
 
 Eichter. 
 
 Society is the book of women. 
 
 Women, like princes, find few real friends. 
 
 Lyttleton. 
 
 In love affairs, a young shepherdess is a better 
 partner than an old queen. De Finod, 
 
 To " Gret out of my house," and " What do you 
 want with my wife ? " there is no answer, 
 
 Don Quixoie, 
 
M^man antr ti^e Wiitsi 
 
 Our ice-eyed brain women are really admirable 
 if we only ask of them just what they can give, 
 and no more. Holmes. 
 
 A marriageable girl is a kind of merchandise 
 that can be negotiated at wholesale only on con- 
 dition that no one takes a part at retail. 
 
 Karr, 
 
 Woman is a flower that exhales her perfume 
 only in the shade. De Zaniennais. 
 
 An honest woman is the one we fear to com- 
 promise. Balzac. 
 
 A woman, the more curious she is about her 
 face, is commonly the more careless about her 
 home. Ben Jonson. 
 
 Heaven has refused genius to woman, in order 
 to concentrate all the fire in her heart. 
 
 Rivarol. 
 
The two pleasantest days of a woman are her 
 marriage day and the day of her funeral. 
 
 Hipponcix, 
 
 A woman who writes commits two sins; she 
 increases the number of books, and decreases the 
 number of women. Ka/rr. 
 
 A lady's wish — he said, with a certain gallantry 
 of manner — makes slaves of us all. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 In nineteen cases out of twenty, for a woman 
 to play her heart in the game of love is to play at 
 cards with a sharper, and gold coin against 
 counterfeit pieces. Bourget. 
 
 Women are at ease in perfidy, as are serpents 
 in bushes. FeuiUet. 
 
 Women see without looking; their husbands 
 often look without seeing. Deanoyers, 
 
SHoman antr ^$ ^ISaits 
 
 Most women who ride well on horseback have 
 
 little tenderness. Like the Amazons, they lack 
 a breast. Anonymous, 
 
 Earth has nothing more tender than a woman' 
 heart when it is the abode of pity. 
 
 Luther. 
 
 In wishing to control her empire, woman 
 destroys itt Canahis. 
 
 Wherever women are hononred, the gods are 
 satisfied. Laws of Manu. 
 
 To a woman, the romances she makes are more 
 amusing than those she reads. 
 
 Gautier. 
 
 Women give themselves to God when the devil 
 wants nothing more with them. 
 
 Sophie Amovld. 
 
Sensualism intrudes into the education of 
 young women, and withers the hope and affec- 
 tion of human nature. Emerson. 
 
 All the reasoning of man is not worth one 
 sentiment of woman. Voltaire. 
 
 When an old crone frolics, she flirts with death. 
 
 Syrtis. 
 
 There never was in any age such a wonder to 
 be found as a dumb woman. Plautus. f 
 
 Wives are young men's mistresses, companions 
 for middle age, and old men's nurses. 
 
 Bacon. 
 
 Tenderness has no deeper source than the heart 
 of a woman, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice 
 no more saint-like abnegation, 
 
 SaUU-Foix. 
 
It is difficult for a woman to keep a secret; 
 and I know more than one man who is a woman. 
 
 Lcifontaine. 
 
 All the evil that women have done to us comes 
 from us, and all the good they have done to us 
 comes from them. Aimi Martin. 
 
 Have a useful and good wife in the house, or 
 don't marry at alL Ev/ripides. 
 
 There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, 
 and beautiful women that are unlovable. 
 
 Houelle. 
 
 None can do a woman worse despite than to 
 
 call her old. Ariosto. 
 
 He who flatters women most pleases them best, 
 and they are most in love with hvm whom they 
 think is most in love with them. 
 
 Chesterfield. 
 
Suitors of a wealthy girl seldom seek for proof 
 of her past virtue. Anonymcms. 
 
 Imperious Venus is less potent than caressing 
 Yenus. Anonymous. 
 
 The clown knows very well that the women are 
 not in love with him, but with Hamlet, the fellow 
 in the black cloak and plumed hat. 
 
 Holmes, 
 
 Do you not know I am a woman? When 
 I think, I must speak. Shakespea/re. 
 
 Women, asses, and nuts require strong hands. 
 
 Italicm Proverb, 
 
 Woman sends forth her sympathies on adven- 
 ture. She embarks her whole soul in the traffic 
 of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hope- 
 leas. Washington Irving, 
 
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, in- 
 determinable, illogical and contradictory. A 
 great deal of forbearance ought to be shown 
 her. Amid. 
 
 What a strange illusion it is to suppose that 
 beauty is goodness ! A beautiful woman utters 
 absurdities : we listen, and we hear not the 
 absurdities but wise thoughts. Tolstoi, 
 
 A woman cannot guarantee her heart, even 
 though her husband be the greatest and most 
 perfect of men. George Sand. 
 
 It is born in maidens that they should wish to 
 please everything that has eyes. 
 
 Gleim. 
 
 The woman who throws herself at a man's head 
 will soon find her place at his feet. 
 
 Desnoyers. 
 
 Women and wine, game and deceit, make the 
 wealth small and the wants great. 
 
 Proverb. 
 
I confess I like the quality ladies better than 
 the common kind even of literary ones. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 Women sometimes deceive the lover — never the 
 friend. Mercier, 
 
 You see in no place of conversation the 
 perfection of speech so much as in accomplished 
 women. StetU. 
 
 A fan is indispensable to a woman who can no 
 longer blush. Anonymous, 
 
 When a wrong idea possesses a womaui, much 
 bitterness flows from her tongue. 
 
 Ewrip%de9 
 
 Marriap:e communicates to women the vices of 
 
 men, but never their virtues, 
 
 Fowrier, 
 
HHoman mis ti)e Wiit» 
 
 In love, the confidant of a woman's sorrow often 
 
 becomes the consoler of it. 
 
 Anonymous, 
 
 A royal court without women is like a year 
 without spring, a spring without flowers. 
 
 Francis I. of Fra/nee, 
 
 A woman full of faith in the one she loves is 
 but a novelist's fancy. Balzac, 
 
 O Pygmalion, who can wonder (no artist surely) 
 that thou didst fall in love with the work of thine 
 own hands. Leigh Sunt. 
 
 The mistakes of a woman result almost always 
 from her faith in the good and her confidence in 
 *ihe truth. Baizae, 
 
 Let an action be never so trivial in itself, 
 women always make it appear of the most im- 
 portance. Pop^ 
 
There are only two beautiful things in the 
 world — women and roses; and only two sweet 
 things — women and melons. 
 
 Malherhe. 
 
 Before promising a woman to love only her, one 
 should have seen them all, or should see only her. 
 
 Many young girls have a strange audacity 
 blended with their instinctive delicacy. 
 
 Holmes, 
 
 Friendship that begins between a man and a 
 woman will soon change its name. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 The happiest women, like the happiest nations, 
 have no history. George Eliot, 
 
 "Women are formed by nature to feel some 
 consolation in present troubles, by having them 
 always in their mouth and on their tongue. 
 
 Ewripides* 
 
 U 
 
Women give entirely to their affections, set 
 their whole fortunes on the die, lose themselves 
 eagerly in the glory of their hnsbands and 
 children. Emerson, 
 
 We ask four things for a woman — that virtue 
 dwell in her heart, modesty in her forehead, 
 sweetness in her mouth, and labour in her hands. 
 
 Chinese Proverb. 
 
 In all ill-matched marriages, the fault is less 
 the woman's than the man's, as the choice 
 lepended on her the least. 
 
 Mme. de Eieux. 
 
 Love lessens the woman's refinement and 
 strengthens the man's. Bichter. 
 
 Who takes an eel by the tail, or a woman at 
 her word, soon finds he holds nothing. 
 
 FroveHf, 
 
Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl's 
 \Irtae. Mme, de Oerdia, 
 
 In condemning the vanity of women, men com- 
 plain of the fire they themselves have kindled. 
 
 Lingrde, 
 
 A prude ought to be condemned to meet only 
 indiscreet lovers. Raisson, 
 
 Women always speak the truth, but not the 
 whole truth. Italiam. Proverb, 
 
 If all women's faces were cast in the same 
 mould, that mould would be the grave of love. 
 
 BichcU, 
 
 What colour would it not have given to my 
 thoughts, and what thrice-washed whiteness to 
 my words, had I been fed on woman's praises. 
 
 ffolmes. 
 
 66 
 
One may see the heart of women through the 
 rents which one may make in their self-love. 
 
 Anonymous, 
 
 "Women and music should never be dated. 
 
 Goldsmith. 
 
 Men never are consoled for their first love, nor 
 women for their last. Weiss. 
 
 A timorous woman often drops into her grave 
 before she is done deliberating. 
 
 Addison. 
 
 It is much worse to irritate an old woman than 
 a dog. Menander. 
 
 There are women so hard to please that it seems 
 as if nothing less than an angel will suit them • 
 hence it comes that they often meet with de\'ils. 
 Mivrguerite de Vcdois, 
 
Woman u a charming creaturOi who dianges 
 her heart as easily as her gloves. 
 
 Balzac, 
 
 Women go further in love than most men, but 
 men go further in friendship than women. 
 
 La Bruyere, 
 
 Woman's function is a guiding, not a deter- 
 mining one. EiLskin^ 
 
 At first woman fosters our dearest hopes with 
 the affection of a mother ; then, like a giddy hen 
 she forsakes the nest. Goethe, 
 
 A girl of sixteen accepts love; a woman of 
 thirty incites it, BicardL 
 
 A woman who loves, however erring, can never 
 be entirely selfish, for love has a humanising 
 influence, and a true passion renders any self- 
 8a<»ifice easy. Feabody, 
 
 68 
 
WSlRtmm antr tjf W^iUi 
 
 A secret passion defends the heart of a woman 
 
 better than her moral sense. 
 
 De La Bretowne. 
 
 Women's hearts are made of stout leather; 
 there's a plagney sight of wear in them. 
 
 HdHbt^rton, 
 
 A woman who pretends to langh at love is like 
 the child who sings at night when he is afraid. 
 
 Bousseau, 
 
 "Woman among savages is a beast of burden ; in 
 Asia she is a piece of furniture ; in Europe she is 
 a spoiled child. J)e Meilhan, 
 
 Women that are least bashful are not infre- 
 quently the most modest. Cclton, 
 
 True feeling is a rustic vulgarity the flirt does 
 not tolerate; she counts its healthiest and most 
 honest manifestation all sentiment. 
 
 MitchdL 
 
Egaoman au^ tfie ^IMii^ 
 
 Shakespeare has no heroes, he has only heroines. 
 
 Huskin, 
 
 Some men are different ; all women are alike. 
 
 Delvau, 
 
 The empire of woman is an empire of sweet- 
 ness, skilfulness and attractiveness; her orders 
 are caresses, her evils are tears. 
 
 Eousseau, 
 
 Women need not be beantifnl every day of their 
 lives; it is sufficient that they have moments 
 which one does not forget, and the return of which 
 one expects. Cherbuliez, 
 
 There are some lips from which even the 
 proudest women love to hear the censure which 
 appears to disprove indifference. 
 
 Lf/tton, 
 
 It is in the nature of the feminine sex to seek 
 here below to corrupt men, and therefore wise 
 men never abandon themselves to the seductions 
 of women. Latos of Manu, 
 
Would that the race of women had never 
 existed — except for me alone I 
 
 Fools that on women trust ; for in their speech 
 is death, hell in their smile, Tasao. 
 
 At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of 
 sixteen is to imitate those ignorant people who 
 buy books to be read by their friends. 
 
 Eiccvrd, 
 
 Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. 
 
 HalihurUm, 
 
 The virtue of women is often the love of reputa- 
 tion and quiet. Rochefoucauld. 
 
 Woman is the most precious jewp] taten from 
 Nature's casket for the ornamentation and happi- 
 ness of maxL Guyard, 
 
 7« 
 
Women have such a wonderful power of gecret- 
 ing adjectives that thej cannot speak the truth 
 when they try. Sheldon. 
 
 Women divine that they are loved long before 
 it is told them. Marivaux, 
 
 The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the 
 brain, in woman by the heart; it is there that 
 they are most sensitive. Ba/yle, 
 
 There will always remain something to be said 
 of woman, as long as there is one on the earth. 
 
 De Boujlers. 
 
 The virtue of widows is a laborious virtue ; they 
 have to combat constantly with the remembrance 
 of past bliss. Jerome. 
 
 A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity is 
 superior to any man of equal capacity. 
 
 LaotUer, 
 
Woman's natural mission is to love, to love but 
 one, to love always. Michelet. 
 
 One reason why women are forbidden to preach 
 the gospel is that they would persuade without 
 argument and reprove without giving offence. 
 
 John Newton. 
 
 How little do lovely women know what awful 
 betags they are in the eyes of inexperienced youth. 
 
 Washington Irving. 
 
 During their youth women wish to be treated 
 as divinities ; they adore the ideal ; they cannot 
 bear the idea of being what Nature wishes them 
 to be. Anonymous. 
 
 Love is a bird that sings in the heart of a 
 woman. Karr. 
 
 "Woman's happiness is in obeying. She objects 
 to men who abdicate too much. 
 
 Mkhdet. 
 
WBoraan antr tj^e W&iit» 
 
 Nature sent voman into the world with the 
 bridal dower of love. Michter. 
 
 The moral amelioration of man constitutes the 
 chief mission of women. Comte, 
 
 Most ladies who have had what is considered as 
 an education, have no idea of an education progres- 
 sive through life. Foster, 
 
 One of the principal occupations of men is to 
 divine women, iMcretdle. 
 
 Men do not always love those they esteem ; 
 women, on the contrary, esteem only those they 
 love. Dubai/. 
 
 I will not affirm that women have no character ; 
 rather, they have a new one every day. 
 
 ffeine. 
 
 74 
 
?lHoman anti t^t WBit» 
 
 The only person who can cure one of a woman 
 is that woman herself. Anonymous. 
 
 Yirtue is a beautiful thing in women when they 
 don't go about with it like a child with a drum, 
 making all sorts of noise with it. 
 
 Jerrold, 
 
 Wiles and deceits are woman's specialities. 
 
 ^schylus. 
 
 What man seeks in love is woman ; what woman 
 seeks in love is man. Houssaye. 
 
 There is no grace that is taught by the dancing- 
 master, no style adopted into the etiquette of 
 courts, but was first the whim and mere action of 
 some brilliant woman. Emerson, 
 
 The conversation of vomen in society resembles 
 the straw used in packing china ; it is nothing, yet 
 without it, everything would be broken. 
 
 Mme, de Salm. 
 
 75 
 
The woman who does not choose to love should 
 
 cut the matter short at once by holding out no 
 
 hope to her suitor. 
 
 Ma/rguerite de Valois. 
 
 One single honest man may yet be seen; but 
 vrander all the world round to find one honest 
 woman, he will search in vain. 
 
 Wielcmd. 
 
 A woman forgives the audacity which her 
 beauty has prompted us to be guilty of. 
 
 Lesage, 
 
 To marry a wife, if we regard the truth, is an 
 evil, but it is a necessary evil, 
 
 Mencmder. 
 
 Nothing is more difficult to choose than a good 
 husband — unless it be to choose a good wife. 
 
 The rudest man, inspired by love, is more per- 
 suasive than the most eloquent man, if uninspired. 
 
 La Bochefoucavid, 
 
One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to 
 cause regret. Gavami. 
 
 Constancy is the chimera of love. 
 
 Vauvenargues. 
 
 The pretension of youth always gives to a 
 w^fflooan a few more years than she really has. 
 
 Jouy. 
 
 I bave only one advice to give you — fall in love 
 with all women. Montma/rin. 
 
 A beautiful face is the most beautiful of all 
 spectacles. La Bruyere. 
 
 The sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice 
 of the woman one loves. La Bruyhre. 
 
 To many is to domesticate the Recording 
 Angel t JBL L, Stevenson, 
 
When one writes of woman he mast reserve the 
 right to laugh at his ideas of the day before. 
 
 Who hath a fair wife hath need of more than 
 two eyes. Proverb, 
 
 Men bestow compliments only on women who 
 deserve none. Mme. Bachi, 
 
 Woman is more the companion of her own 
 thoughts and feelings, and if they are turned to 
 ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for 
 consolation! Washington Irving, 
 
 Vanity, shame and, above all, temperament 
 often makes the valour of men and the virtue of 
 women. La Rochefoucauld, 
 
 Bachelors are providential beings ; God created 
 them for the consolation of widows and the hope 
 of maida. 2^0 Finod, 
 
Maoman antr tje W!Rit$ 
 
 As the faculty of writing is chiefly a mascaline 
 endowment, the reproach of making the world 
 miserable has been always thrown upon the 
 women. Johnson. 
 
 We look at one little woman's face we love, as 
 we look at the face of our mother earth, and see 
 all sorts of answers to our yearnings. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 There are some women who seem cold and 
 beautiful stones, their hearts icicles, their tears 
 frozen gems pressed out by injured pride. 
 
 Alger. 
 
 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfect- 
 ing of beauty — a fine building is lost in a dark 
 lane ; a statue should be in the air ; much more 
 true is it of woman. Emerson. 
 
 A woman should never accept a lover without 
 
 the consent of her heart, nor a husband without 
 
 the consent of her judgment. 
 
 />« Lendo9, 
 
Most women spend their lives in robbing the 
 old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit. 
 
 Feuillet. 
 
 What is it that love does to women f "Without 
 it, she only sleeps ; with it alone, she lives. 
 
 Ouida. 
 
 Female levity is no less fatal to them after 
 marriage than before. Addison, 
 
 The highest dressers, the highest face-painters, 
 are not the loveliest women, but such as have lost 
 their loveliness, or never had any. 
 
 Leigh HwnL 
 
 The heart of a woman never grows old ; when 
 it has ceased to love it has ceased to live. 
 
 Eochepedre, 
 
 Neither in adversity nor in the joys of prosperity 
 
 let me be associated with woman-kind, 
 
 jEschylttg. 
 
Women ask if a man is discreet, as men ask if 
 a woman is pretty. Anonymous, 
 
 It is only the coward who reproaches as a 
 dishonour the love a woman has cherished for 
 him. Mme. de Lambert. 
 
 There is scarcely a single cause in which a 
 woman is not engaged in some way fomenting the 
 suit. Juvenal, 
 
 Do not take women from the bedside of those 
 who suffer ; it is their post of honour. 
 
 Mme. Fie. 
 
 It is lucky for the poets that their mistresses 
 are not obliged to sit to them. They would never 
 write a line. Leigh Hunt. 
 
 It IS easier for a woman to defend her virtue 
 rainst man than her reputation against women. 
 
 Eochebrune, 
 
 Si 
 
Twice is a woman dear — -when she comes to the 
 
 house and when she leaves it. 
 
 Anoni/mous. 
 
 A woman is Kke your shadow ; follow her, she 
 dies ; fly from her, she follows. 
 
 Proverb, 
 
 Woman is a changeable thing, as our Yirgil 
 informed us at school; but her change par 
 excellence is from the fairy you woo to the brownie 
 you wed. Lytton, 
 
 How many ways to the heart has a woman t 
 
 Cha/nning, 
 
 What manly eloquence could produce such an 
 dffect as woman's silence. MicheleL 
 
 When maidens sue, men live like goda. 
 
 Proverb. 
 
 8a 
 
I think it takes a great deal from a woman':! 
 
 modesty, going into public life; and modesty is 
 
 her greatest charm, 
 
 Mrs Ward Beecher. 
 
 The passion for praise, which is so very 
 vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects 
 in women of sense. Addison. 
 
 With women, friendship ends when rivalry 
 begins. ^ Anonymous. 
 
 A woman is easily governed if a man takes her 
 hand. La Bruyere. 
 
 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy 
 poor and solitary. Emerson. 
 
 The man who can govern a woman can govern 
 a nation. Balzac. 
 
 An old woman is a very bad bride, but a 
 very good wife. Fielding, 
 
 9\ 
 
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a 
 snail, to import that she was a home-keeper. 
 
 Man argues woman may not be trusted too far ; 
 woman feels man cannot be trusted too near. 
 
 Brotone, 
 
 Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly 
 enough to be insensible to flattery upon her 
 person. Chesterfield. 
 
 God has placed the genius of women in their 
 hearts, because the works of this genius are 
 always worfes of love. Lama/rtine. 
 
 To think of the part one little woman can play 
 in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may 
 be a Tery good imitation of heroism, and to win 
 her may be a discipline 1 George Eliot. 
 
 The truth is, women are lost because they do 
 not deliberate. Amelia E, Barr, 
 
When Qod thought of Mother^ he must have 
 
 laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly, 
 
 so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power 
 
 and beauty was the conception. 
 
 Ward Beecher, 
 
 A woman may always help her husband by 
 what she knows, however little ] by what she half 
 knows, or mis-knows, she will only tease him. 
 
 Ruskin. 
 
 Diffuse knowledge generally among women, and 
 
 you will at once cure the conceit which knowledge 
 
 occasions while it is rare. « , c -^i 
 
 Sydney bmvth. 
 
 The love of woman has in all ages given birth 
 in man to passionate desires, poetic dreams, 
 deferential attentions, persuasive forms of polite- 
 ness. Alger. 
 
 A lady who had not learned discretion by 
 
 experience and came to &n evil end. 
 
 Holme$, 
 
 In the elevated order of ideas, the life of man 
 is glory ; the life of woman is love. 
 
 Balzac, 
 
Women have more strength in their looks than 
 
 we have in our laws, and more power by their 
 
 tears than we have by our arguments. 
 
 Sa/viUe, 
 
 The path of a good woman is indeed strewn 
 
 with flowers ; but they rise behind her steps, not 
 
 before them. " Her feet have touched the 
 
 meadows and left the daisies rosy." 
 
 Buskin. 
 
 The masculine personal pronoun is singularly 
 restricted in woman's judgment. Passion has 
 curtailed her grammar amazingly. She can 
 remember only one number (that is Greek). 
 
 Broivne. 
 
 There is nothing sadder than to look at dressy 
 old things, who have reached the frozen latitudes 
 beyond fifty, and who persist in appearing in the 
 airy costume of the tropics. Sheldon. 
 
 A woman finds it a much easier task to do an 
 evil than a virtuous deed. Plautus. 
 
 I have always said it : Nature meant to make 
 womckn its masterpiece. Lesaing, 
 
2l2Eoman an^ tit WiiiB 
 
 Woman is the organ of the deviL" 
 
 De Varennes. 
 
 Women are a breed the like of which neither 
 sea nor earth produces anything ; he who is 
 always with them knows them best. 
 
 JEuripides. 
 
 Women make ns lose paradise, but how 
 frequently we find it again in their arms. 
 
 J)e Finod. 
 
 Marriage has its unknown great men as war 
 has its Napoleons, poetry its Cheniers, and 
 philosophy its Descartes. Balzac. 
 
 Vanity ruins more women than love. 
 
 Du Deffand. 
 
 Extremes in everything is a characteristic of 
 woman. De Goncourt. 
 
 One loves more the first time, better the second 
 
 Mochepedre. 
 
 87 
 
?12aximan antr t^t 5l2ait0 
 
 Of all religions love is the most deceptive. 
 
 FcUeologue. 
 
 The Indian axiom " Do not strike even with a 
 flower a woman guilty of a hundred crimes" is 
 my rule of conduct. BcUzac, 
 
 To be loved as in books is a dream. 
 
 JBoti/rget, 
 
 The cruellest revenge of a woman is often to 
 remain faithful to a man. £o88uet. 
 
 Women, cats and birds are the creatures that 
 waste most time on their toilets. 
 
 Female goodness seldom keeps its ground 
 against laughter, flattery, or fashion. 
 
 Johnson. 
 
 I received money with her, and for the dowry 
 have sold my authority. Plautus. 
 
 88 
 
WS^amm utOi tit WSl^tta 
 
 There is no torture that a woman would not 
 
 suffer to enhance her beauty. 
 
 Montaigne. 
 
 Most women proceed like the flea, by leaps and 
 jumps. Balzac. 
 
 The most fascinating women are those that can 
 most enrich the every-day moments of existence. 
 
 Leigh Hvm4, 
 
 Learn, above all, how to manage women ; their 
 thousand "Ahs" and "Ohs," so thousand fold, 
 can be cured. Goethe, 
 
 All women are fond of minds that inhabit fine 
 bodies, and of aouls that have fine eyes. 
 
 Jouhert. 
 
 When women love us, they forgive us every- 
 thing, even our crimes ; when they do not love us, 
 they give us credit for nothing, not even for our 
 virtues. Balzao, 
 
She who spat in my face while I was, shall 
 come to kiss my feet when I am no more. 
 
 Montaigne. 
 
 Some women are so jnst and discerning that 
 they never see an opportunity of being generous. 
 
 Anonj/moiM. 
 
 I am glad I am not a man, as I should be 
 
 obliged to marry a woman. 
 
 Mme. de Stael. 
 
 There would be no such animals as prudes or 
 coquettes in the world were there not such an 
 animal as man. Addison. 
 
 Women have tongues of craft and hearts of 
 guile. Tasso, 
 
 A coquette has no heart ; she has only vanity ; 
 it is adorers she seeks, not love. 
 
 Foinoelot, 
 
The reputation of a woman may be compared to 
 a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be 
 sallied by every breath that comes near it. 
 
 Cervantes. 
 
 Many men kill themselves for love, but many 
 more women die of it. Lemontey, 
 
 The brain-woraen never interest us like the 
 heart-women ; white roses please less than red. 
 
 Holmes, 
 
 A woman is seldom roused to great and 
 caurageous exertion, but when something most 
 dear to her is in immediate danger. 
 
 BaiUie. 
 
 A man can keep another person's secret better 
 than his own; a woman, on the ccntrary, keeps 
 her secret though she tells all others. 
 
 La Bruyhre, 
 
 Men speak of what they know; women, of 
 what pleases them. Boiisseom, 
 
A woman for a general, and the soldiers will be 
 womeii. Latin Proverb. 
 
 Love is the most terrible, and also the most 
 generous, of the passions ; it is the only one which 
 includes in its dreams the happiness of someone 
 else. Karr, 
 
 YiBTUB: a word easy to pronounce, difficult 
 to understand. Voltaire, 
 
 Marriage should combat without respite or 
 mercy that monster that devours everything — 
 habit. Balzac. 
 
 It is easy to find a lover and to retain a friend ; 
 what is difficult is to find the friend and retain 
 the lover. Levis. 
 
 It's better to love to-day than to-morrow. 
 pleasure postponed is a pleasure lost. 
 
 Eieard, 
 
 ^ 
 
Woman conceals only what she does not know. 
 
 Proverb, 
 
 Love, pleasure, and inconstancy are bat the 
 consequences of a desire to know the truth. 
 
 Dudos. 
 
 A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded 
 out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a 
 good opinion of her own beauty. 
 
 Addison, 
 
 The vows that woman makes to her fond lover 
 are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly 
 running stream. dxtulltbs. 
 
 When a lady walks the streets, she leaves her 
 ^drtuous indignation countenance at home. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 The humour of affecting a superior carriage 
 generally rises from a false notion of the weak- 
 ness of the female understanding in general. 
 
 Steele. 
 
 93 
 
Woman is mistress of the art of completely 
 embittering the life of the person on whom she 
 depends. Ooethe. 
 
 A woman submits to the yoke of opinion, but a 
 man rebels. De Finod. 
 
 The only thing that has been taught successfully 
 to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they 
 received from their first mother. 
 
 Diderot. 
 
 Woman is like the reed that bends to every 
 breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. 
 
 Whatdy, 
 
 Women are happier in the love they inspire 
 than in that which they feel ; men are just the 
 contrary. De Beauchine, 
 
 To a susceptible youth, like myself, brought up 
 in the country, women are perfect divinities. 
 
 Washington Irving, 
 
Women should be careful of their conduct, for 
 appearances sometimes injure them as much as 
 faults. Girard. 
 
 Excess of passion and the force of Ioto,— argu- 
 ments than which there can be none more power- 
 ful to assuage the irritation of a woman's mind. 
 
 TitvA Living. 
 
 The reason why so few women are touched by 
 friendship is that they find it dull when they have 
 experienced love. La Eochefouca/uM. 
 
 Where women are, the better things are implied 
 if not spoken. Bronson Alcoti. 
 
 A woman is a well-served table that one sees 
 with different eyes before and after the meal. s 
 
 Anonymovs. 
 
 The materials that go to the making of one 
 woman were set free by the abstraction from in- 
 animate nature of one man's worth of masculine 
 constituents. Holmes. 
 
Women are wise impromptu, fools on reflection. 
 
 Italian Proverb. 
 
 To say the tmth, I never yet knew a tolerable 
 
 woman to be fond of ber own sex. 
 
 Stoift. 
 
 " I like women," said a clear-headed man of the 
 
 world, " they are so finished." They finish society, 
 
 manners, language. Form and ceremony are their 
 
 realm. They embellish trifles. 
 
 Smerson, 
 
 An opinion formed by a woman is inflexible ; 
 the fact is not half so stubborn. 
 
 There is one thing admirable in women ; they 
 never reason about their blameworthy actions: 
 even in their dissimulation there is an element of 
 sincerity. Balzac. 
 
 A mother dreads no memories, — those sbadows 
 have all melted away in the dawn of Baby's smiles. 
 
 George ElioL 
 
Nature has said to woman: Be fair if thou 
 canst, be virtuous if thou wilt; but considerate 
 thou must be. Beaumarchaia, 
 
 A woman either loves or hates ; she knows no 
 medium. Syraa, 
 
 The error of certain women is to imagine that, 
 to acquire distinction, they must imitate the 
 manners of men. De Maistre. 
 
 Women's virtue is the music of stringed instru- 
 ments, which sound best in a room. 
 
 Bichter. 
 
 With women, the desire to bedeck themselves is 
 always the desire to please. 
 
 Mwrmontel, 
 
 Tn life, as in a promenade, woman must lean on 
 a man above her. Ziorr. 
 
 97 
 
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looksj 
 shall win my love. Shakespea/re, 
 
 The revolution the Boston boys started had tc 
 run in mother's milk before it ran in man's blood. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that 
 flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is 
 bitter. DideroL 
 
 A shameless woman is the worst of men. 
 
 Young, 
 
 There has been no church, however superstitious, 
 that has not been adorned by many Christian 
 women devoting their entire lives to assuaging 
 the sufferings of men. Lecky. 
 
 I dare say she's like the rest of the women, — 
 thinks two and two'U come to make five, if she 
 cries and bothers enough about it. 
 
 George MioU 
 
We need the friendship of a man in great trials, 
 of a woman in the affairs of everyday life. 
 
 Tkomoi. 
 
 How can one who hates men love a woman with- 
 out blushing f Eichter. 
 
 Some women need much adorning, as some 
 meat needs much seasoning to incite appetite. 
 
 JSochebrune. 
 
 *Tia beauty that doth make woman proud ; 
 
 Tifl virtue that doth make them most admired ; 
 
 Tis government that makes them seem divine. 
 
 Shakespeare, 
 
 "Women like audacity ; when one astounds them, 
 he interests them ; and when one interests them, 
 he is very sure to please them. 
 
 AnonymouM, 
 
 Women should despise blander, aoad fear to 
 provoke it McUle, de ScttderL 
 
 99 
 
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman. 
 
 ffohneB. 
 
 HoweTW virtuous a woman may be, a com- 
 pliment on her virtue is what gives her the least 
 pleasure. Prince de Ligne, 
 
 It is not always for virtue's sake that women 
 are virtuous. La Eochefoucavld, 
 
 The society of women is the element of good 
 manners. Goethe, 
 
 Woman is the Sunday of man. 
 
 Michdet, 
 
 a a woman has any malicious mischief to do, 
 her memory is immortaL PlcnUug, 
 
^IHoman atiti t^t WBita 
 
 When women have passed thirty, the first 
 thing they forget is their age; when they have 
 attained the age of forty, they have entirely lost 
 the remembrance of it. J)e Lencloi, 
 
 Even if women were immortal, they could 
 never foresee their last lover. 
 
 J)e Lamennais, 
 
 It has been justly observed that heroines are 
 best painted in general terms. 
 
 Leigh Hunt, 
 
 Love is superior to genius. 
 
 De Musset 
 
 Time sooner or later vanquishes love ; friend- 
 ship alone subdues time. D'ArconvUle, 
 
 A beautiful woman with the qualities of a 
 noble man is the most perfect thing in nature j 
 we find in her all the merits of both sexes. 
 
 IPI 
 
One ia alone in a crowd when one snffers, or 
 when one loves. Rochepedre. 
 
 All the passions die with the years; self-love 
 alone never dies. Voltaire, 
 
 A short absence quickens love, a long absence 
 kills it. Mirabeau, 
 
 Marriage often unites for life two people who 
 scarcely know each other. BcUzae. 
 
 If a woman refrains from absurd or hateful 
 words and acts, and if she is beautiful, we are 
 straightway convinced that she is a paragon of 
 wisdom and morality. Tolstoi. 
 
 If we men require more perfection from women 
 than from ourselves^ it is doing them honour. 
 
 lot 
 
How many women since the days of Echo and 
 Narcissus have pined themselves into air for 
 the love of men who were in love only with 
 themselves. Anna Jameson, 
 
 The castle that parleys and the woman who 
 
 listens are ready to surrender. 
 
 Froverh. 
 
 Strange that the Gods should have given an 
 antidote against the venom of savage serpents 
 and none against that of a bad woman. 
 
 JEv/ripides. 
 
 Women dress less to be clothed than to be 
 adorned. When alone before their mirror they 
 think more of men than of themselves. 
 
 Rockebrune. 
 
 The woman we love most is often the woman 
 
 to whom we express it the least. 
 
 De Becmchine. 
 
 Woman's counsel is not worth much, yet he 
 that despises it is no wiser than he should be. 
 
 Cervantes. 
 
 I03 
 
Woman is the nervous part of humanity ; msn 
 the muscular. ffalle. 
 
 O woman, woman! thou art formed to bless 
 the heart of restless man. Bird, 
 
 Women are often ruined by their sensitiveness 
 and saved by their coquetry. 
 
 McUle. Azais. 
 
 Women are compounds of plain-sewing and 
 make-believe — daughters of Sham and Hem. 
 
 Sheldon, 
 
 Finesse has been given to woman to compensate 
 the force of man. De Laclos, 
 
 Women are demons who make us enter hell 
 through the gates of paradise. 
 
 Anonymoui, 
 
 104 
 
It is to teach ns early how to think and ho^ 
 to excite our infantile imagination, that pmdent 
 nature has given to women so much chit-chat. 
 
 La Bruyere. 
 
 Oh, woman ! woman ! thou shouldst have a 
 few sins of thy own to answer for ! Thou art the 
 author of such a book of follies in man ! 
 
 Lytton. 
 
 Woman's dignity lies in her being unknown; 
 her glory iu the esteem of her husband ; and her 
 pleasure in the welfare of her family. 
 
 RousseoM, 
 
 Men 8ay of women what pleases them ; women 
 do with men what pleases them. 
 
 Sdgur. 
 
 Woman must not belong to herself; she is 
 bound to alien destinies. Schiller. 
 
 Don't trust your horse in the field, nor your 
 wife in your home. Russian Proverb, 
 
 los 
 
WBomm anlr tje 5IHite 
 
 Woman has been fed upon flattery until it ii 
 not strange she hungers for substantial diet, whose 
 best sauce is understanding and appreciation. 
 
 Bronme. 
 
 One thing only I believe in a woman — that she 
 will not come to life again after she is dead. 
 
 AnonymoiM, 
 
 The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. 
 Candour, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty, — 
 a woman has each of these but once. 
 
 La JBretonne. 
 
 Men call physicians only when they suffer; 
 women when they are only afflicted with ennui, 
 
 Mme. de Gerdis, 
 
 Men say more evil of a woman than they think j 
 it is the contrary with women toward men. 
 
 Duhay. 
 
 A woman's rank lies in the fulness of her 
 womanhood; therein alone she is royal. 
 
 Q^orge Miot, 
 
 1€6 
 
WBoxam antr t^t WLita 
 
 The deceit of priests and the aanning of women 
 durpass all else. Bv/rger, 
 
 Nothing is better than a good wife ; and nothing 
 is worse than a bad one, who is fond of gadding 
 aboutb Eesiod. 
 
 Woman often dies for love, as spotless maidens 
 have died to live forever in the pantheon o£ 
 sentiment. Browne, 
 
 Love, that is bnt an episode in the life of man, 
 is the entire story of the life of woman. 
 
 Mme, da Stael, 
 
 Women, priests, and poultry have never enough. 
 
 Proverb, 
 
 Woman is too soft to hate permanently ; even 
 if a hundred men have been a grief to her, she 
 will still love the hundred and first. 
 
 ■07 
 
SSEoman atiti tfie WiitB 
 
 Intellect is to a woman's nature what her skirl 
 is to her dress. EolmeB. 
 
 Without woman man would be rough, rude, 
 solitary, and would ignore all the graces, which 
 are but the smiles of love. 
 
 Chateavhrismd, 
 
 No woman who is absolutely and entirely good, 
 in the ordinary sense of the word, gets a man's 
 most fervent, passionate love. 
 
 Mrs W. K, Clifford, 
 
 It is a misfortune for a woman never to be 
 loved, but it is a humiliation to be loved no more. 
 
 Montesquisu. 
 
 Woman is the salvation or the destruction of 
 the family. Amiel. 
 
 An old coquette has all the defects of a young 
 one, and none of her charmi, Dupup^ 
 
 xo8 
 
Women, like the plants in the woods, derive 
 their softness and tenderness from the shade. 
 
 Zondor. 
 
 One should choose a wife with the ears rather 
 than with the eyes. Proverb. 
 
 From many a woman*s fortune this truth is 
 clear as day; that falsely smiling pleasure with 
 pain requites us ever. Nibelungenlied. 
 
 Half the sorrows of women would be averted 
 if they could repress the speech they know to be 
 useless, — nay, the speech they have resolved not 
 to utter. George Eliot. 
 
 Men know that women are an over-match for 
 them, and therefore choose the weakest and most 
 ignorant. Johnson. 
 
 Woman's sensibility lights up, and quivers and 
 falls, like the flame ol a coal Are. 
 
 MUchell. 
 
The weakness of women gives to some men 
 victorj^ that their merit would never gain. 
 
 Anoni/mou8, 
 
 "Women like brave men exceedingly, bat 
 audacious men still more. Le Mesle, 
 
 The mistake of many women is to return 
 sentiment for gallantry. Jout/. 
 
 "Women can rarely be deceived, for they are 
 accustomed to deceive. Aristophanes, 
 
 There are no pleasures where women are not. 
 
 Marie De Bomieu, 
 
 "Women's tender hearts are much more sus- 
 ceptible of good impi'sssions than the minds of 
 the other sex. Steele, 
 
Coquettes are like hunters who are fond of 
 hunting, but do not eat the game. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 Marriage with a good woman is a harbour in 
 the tempest ; but with a bad woman, it proves a 
 tempest in the harbour. Feiit-Serm. 
 
 A man without religion is to be pitied, bnt 
 godless woman is a horror above all things. 
 
 Elizabeth Uva/ns, 
 
 Cruellv tempted, perplexed and bewildered, 
 when passion is stronger than reason, women do 
 not think of consequences, but go blindfolded, 
 headlong to their ruin, Amelia E, Bourr, 
 
 Yanity acts like a woman, — ^they both think 
 they lose something when love or praise is accorded 
 to another. Avionymov*, 
 
 One woman reads another's character without 
 the tedious trouble of deciphering* 
 
 BenJomMom, 
 
 III 
 
Women are much more like each other than 
 men; they have, in truth, but two passions, — 
 vanity and love. Chesterfield. 
 
 A jest that makes a virtuous woman only smile, 
 often frightens away a prude. 
 
 De LaUna, 
 
 If the loving closed heart of a good woman were 
 to open before a man, how much controlled tender- 
 ness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues 
 would he see I Eichter, 
 
 There are twenty-four hours in a day, and not a 
 moment in the twenty-four in which a woman 
 may not change her mind. De FinocL 
 
 Most women are better out of their houses than 
 in them. Tacittta, 
 
 How many women are bom too finely organ- 
 ised in sense and soul for the highway ; they must 
 walk with feet unshod 1 ffolmes. 
 
 IIS 
 
Women are rakes by nature and pmdes by 
 necessity. Xa Bochefoucwuld. 
 
 What means did the devil find ont, or what 
 
 instrument did his own subtlety present him, as 
 fittest and aptest to work his mischief by ? Even 
 the unquiet vanity of the woman. 
 
 Sir Walter Raleigh. 
 
 An obscure mist of sighs exhales out of the 
 solitude of women in the nineteenth century. 
 
 Alger, 
 
 If a woman's young and pretty, I think you 
 can see her good looks all the better for her being 
 plainly dressed. George Eliot. 
 
 A man is in general better pleased when he has 
 a good dinner than when his wife talks Greek. 
 
 Johnson, 
 
 A young girl betrays, in a moment, that her 
 eyes have been feeding on the face where you find 
 them fixed. Holmes, 
 
 III 
 
Life is not long enough for a coquette to play 
 all her tricks in. Addison. 
 
 The woman who loves us is only a woman, but 
 the woman we love is a celestial being, whose 
 defects disappear under the prism through which 
 we see her. Girardin. 
 
 Woman's love, like lichens on a rock, will still 
 grow where even charity can find no soil to 
 nurture itself. Bov4e, 
 
 If a fox is cunning, a woman in love is still 
 more so. Proverb. 
 
 There are few husbands whom the wife cannot 
 win in the long run by patience and love. 
 
 Marguerite de VcUcia. 
 
 A woman indeed ventures most, for she hath 
 no sanctuary to retire to from an evil husband. 
 
 Jeremy Taylor, 
 
 114 
 
Better to have never loved, than to have loved 
 unhappily, or to have Aa^ loved, 
 
 Louise CdeU 
 
 Love makes time pass, and time makes love 
 pass. Proverb. 
 
 Love is the passion of great souls; it makes 
 them merit glory, when it does not turn their 
 heads. De Pompadour. 
 
 Nothing is so embarrassing as the first tite-drtStej 
 when there is everything to say, unless it be the 
 last, when everything has been said. 
 
 JSoqu^lan. 
 
 All joys do not cause laughter ; great pleasures 
 are serious; pleasures of love do not make m 
 laugh. Voltaire. 
 
 The beautiful is always severe. 
 
 S^ur. 
 
 "S 
 
Love ! Love ! Eternal enigma ! Will not the 
 Sphinx that guards thee find an .^dipas to 
 explain thee t FycU, 
 
 Friendship between two women is always a 
 plot against each other. Karr. 
 
 Divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. 
 
 Stede, 
 
 The ever-womanly draws us above, 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 I love men, not because they are men, but 
 because they are not women. 
 
 Queen Chrisiitia, 
 
 Flow, wine 1 smile, women 1 and the universe 
 is consoled. B&ranger. 
 
 Ii6 
 
Discretion is more necessary to women than 
 eloquence, because they have less trouble to 
 speak well than to speak little. 
 
 Du Boae, 
 
 There is no gown or garment that worse 
 becomes a woman than when she will be wise. 
 
 Luther. 
 
 Women live only in the emotion that love 
 gives. Eoussaye, 
 
 On great occasions it is almost always womeD 
 who have given the strongest proofs of virtue 
 and devotion. Montholon^ 
 
 God bless all good women ! To their soft hands 
 and pitying hearts we must all come at last. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 Neither education nor reason give^ women 
 much security against the influence of example. 
 
 Johnson. 
 
 117 
 
21Homan anli tje Matte 
 
 The hell for women who are only handsome ii 
 old age. SairU-JSvremond. 
 
 Men are women's playthings, women are the 
 devil's. Victor Hugo, 
 
 A woman, if she is bent on ill, never goes 
 
 begging to the gardener for material ; she has a 
 garden at home. Plautus. 
 
 The woman in ns still prosecutes a deceit like 
 that begun in the garden ; and our understand- 
 ings are wedded to an Eve as fatal as the mother 
 of their miseries. Glanvill. 
 
 Among all animals, from man to the dog, the 
 heart of a mother is always a sublime thing. 
 
 Dumaa, 
 
 There are no ugly women; there are only 
 women who do not know how to look pretty. 
 
 Berryer, 
 
 ii8 
 
?12anman antu tf)^ W^iU 
 
 It is not for good women that men have fonght 
 battles, given their lives, and staked their souls. 
 
 Mrs W, K. Clifford. 
 
 Women's sympathies give a tone, like the harp s 
 
 of ^olus, to the slightest breath. 
 
 Mitchell. 
 
 A coquette is a woman who places her honour 
 in a lottery ; ninety-nine chances to one that she 
 will lose it. Anonymous. 
 
 The honour of woman is badly guarded when it 
 is guarded by keys and spies. No woman is 
 honest who does not wish to be. 
 
 Dupwy. 
 
 The man that lays his hand upon a woman, save 
 in the way of kindness, is a wretch whom 'twere 
 gross flattery to name a coward. 
 
 Tohin. 
 
 Beauty deceives women in making them estab- 
 lish on an ephemeral power the pretensions of a 
 whole life. De Bigincourt, 
 
 "9 
 
fmomm antK t^t WBitB 
 
 I do not know that she was "virtnous ; but sha 
 was ngly, and with a woman that is half the 
 battle. Heine, 
 
 f 
 
 Love works miracles every day; snch as 
 weakening the strong and strengthening the 
 weak ; making fools of the wise, and wise men of 
 fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, 
 and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. 
 
 Ma/rguerite de Valois, 
 
 In love, as in everything else, experience is a 
 physician who never comes until after the disorder 
 is cured. De la Tow. 
 
 Those who always speak well of women do not 
 
 know them enough ; those who always speak ill of 
 
 them do not know them at clL 
 
 TigavXirLehrwn, 
 
 "Were we perfectly acquainted with our idol, we 
 should never passionately desire it. 
 
 La Bochefoucatdd. 
 
 no 
 
Love is like the moon; when it does not in- 
 crease, it decreases, Sdgwr. 
 
 As soon as women are ours, we are no longer 
 theirs. Montaigne. 
 
 A woman laughs when she can, and weeps 
 when she wilL Proverb. 
 
 Woman may complain to God, as subjects do of 
 tyrant princes ; but otherwise she hath no appeal 
 in the causes of unkindness. 
 
 Jeremy Taylor ^ 
 
 A bachelor seeks a wife to avoid solitude; a 
 married man seeks society to avoid a tete-a-tete. 
 
 Varennes. 
 
 Silence and blushing are the eloquence of 
 
 Chinese Proverb. 
 
 121 
 
A woman who has not seen her lover for the 
 whole day considers that day lost for her; the 
 tenderest of men consider it only lost for love. 
 
 Madame de Salm. 
 
 A woman that is ill-treated has no refuge in 
 her griefs but in silence and secrecy. 
 
 Steele. 
 
 There are only two good women in the world ; 
 one of them is dead, and the other is not to be 
 found. German Proverb, 
 
 The most beautiful object in the world, it will 
 be allowed, is a beautiful woman. 
 
 Ma>cavZay. 
 
 No woman can be handsome by the force of 
 features alone, any more than she can be witty 
 only by the help of speech. ffughes. 
 
 Every pretty girl one sees is « reminiscence of 
 the Garden of 'RdexL Sheldon, 
 
 122 
 
The Marys who bring ointment for our feet get 
 but little thanks. Thackeray. 
 
 We censure the inconstancy of women when we 
 are the victims ; we find it charming when we are 
 the objects, Desnoyers. 
 
 The purer the golden vessel the more readily is 
 it bent ; the higher worth of women is sooner lost 
 than that of men. Richter. 
 
 Nature has given beauty to women which can 
 resist shields and spears. She who is beautiful is 
 stronger than iron and flame. Anacreon. 
 
 The heart of true womanhood knows where its 
 own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it. 
 
 Hawthorne. 
 
 Millions of people, generations of slaves, perish 
 in this penal servitude of the factories merely in 
 order to sacisty the whim of woman. ^ 
 
 Tolstoi. 
 
 123 
 
\. 
 
 mMmm antr tje limits 
 
 A vroman of sense onght to be above flattering 
 any man. Holmes, 
 
 The reason why so few marriages are happy is 
 because young ladies spend their time making 
 nets, not cages. Anonymous. 
 
 Woman knows that the better she obeys the 
 surer she is to rule. MicheUt, 
 
 I have found that there is an intimate con- 
 nection between the character of women and the 
 fancy that makes them choose such and such 
 material. Prosper MerimSe, 
 
 "Woman is the most perfect when the most 
 womanly. Gladstone. 
 
 Woman is at once apple and serpent. 
 
 Heine, 
 
 124 
 
USEuman antr t^e ^Mit» 
 
 One mnst have loved a woman of genias in 
 order to comprehend what happiness there is in 
 loving a fooL TaUeyra/nd, 
 
 The most reasonable women have hours whereii. 
 to be unreasonable. Cherhuliez. 
 
 The love of a bad woman kills others ; the love 
 of a good and noble woman kills herself. 
 
 Oeorge ScmoL 
 
 Woman is born for love, and it is impossible 
 to turn her from seeking it. Ossoli, 
 
 Man sometimes asks of a book the truth ; a I 
 woman always her illusions. GoncowrU 
 
 Societies commence with polygamy and finish 
 with polyandry, GonctywrL 
 
 »S 
 
In a truly loving heart either jealonsy kills love 
 or love kills jealousy. Bov/rgeU 
 
 It is not the treachery of women, but our own, 
 which makes us beware of them. 
 
 BowrgeU 
 
 The world either breaks or hardens the heart 
 
 Chamfort, 
 
 A mother's tenderness and caresses are the 
 milk of the heart. De Guerin, 
 
 Great vices, and great virtues, are exceptions in 
 mankind. Sapoleon L 
 
 Most women caress sin before embracing peni- 
 tence; DtbroU-FonUmeUe, 
 
 126 
 
llSEoman anb t^$ ^ISEtts 
 
 When Eve ate the apple she knew she was 
 naked. I have often thought, as I looked at her 
 dancing daughters, that another bite would be of 
 servicie to them. Sheldon. 
 
 Woman is a creature between man and the 
 angels. Balzac. 
 
 Education raises many poor women to a stage of 
 refinement that makes them suitable companions 
 for men of a higher rank, and not suitable for 
 those of their own. Lech/. 
 
 Elegance of appearance, ornaments, and dress, 
 these are women's badges of distinction ; in these 
 they delight and glory. Titibs Livius. 
 
 Men who paint sylphs, fall in love with some 
 bonne et hrave femme, heavy-heeled and freckled. 
 
 George Miot, 
 
 ^ 
 
 M7. 
 
Woman — the gods be thanked! — ^is not even 
 collaterally related to that sentimental abstraction 
 called an angeL Broume. 
 
 There will always remain something to be said 
 of woman, as long as there is one on the earth. 
 
 £ouffler8. 
 
 There are no oaths that make so many per- 
 jurers as the vows of love. Eochebnme, 
 
 The heart makes of woman a sublime being, 
 the senses in their brutality make of her a true 
 being. Bourget. 
 
 It is neither honour nor love which makes a 
 betrayed man think of killing a woman. Murder 
 comes of the senses. Bov/rgeL 
 
 Love is a religion and its cult must cost more 
 than that of all the other religions. BourgeL 
 
 I3i 
 
Of an ancient love one may make eyerything, 
 even a new love — everything, except friendship, 
 
 Bofurget. 
 
 One blushes oftener from the wounds of self* 
 love than from modesty. Guih&ri. 
 
 When the intoxication of love has passed, we 
 laugh at the perfections it had discovered. 
 
 De Lenclos. 
 
 The passions are the orators of great assemblies. 
 
 Bivcvrol. 
 
 Every one speaks well of his heart, but no one 
 dares to speak well of his mind. 
 
 La MochefouccsuM. 
 
 There are people who are almost in love, almost 
 famous, and almost happy. De Krudener. 
 
 129 
 
Women are an aristocracy. Michdet. 
 
 Women are too imaginative and sensitive to 
 have much logic Mme, du Deffand, 
 
 The man who lives in indifference is one who 
 has never seen the woman he could love. 
 
 I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his 
 body. Boucicault. 
 
 One mother is more venerable than a thousand 
 fathers. Laws of Mam/a. 
 
 Tell a woman that she is beautiful, and the 
 devil wiU repeat it to tier ten times. 
 
 Italicm Proverb, 
 
 130 
 
SDSEoman anty t^e Wiit^ 
 
 A woman is most merciless when shame goads 
 on her hate. Juvenal, 
 
 Qod made her small in order to do a more 
 choice bit of workmanship. De Muaset. 
 
 The venom of the female viper is more poison- 
 ous than that of the male viper. Butler, 
 
 Friendships of women are cushions wherein 
 they stick their pins. Anonymous, 
 
 Women rouge that they may not blush. ^ 
 
 Italicm Proverb, 
 
 A woman in love is a very poor judge of 
 character. HoQantL 
 
 131 
 
There was never yet fair woman but she made 
 mouths in a glass. Shakespeare, 
 
 A woman's whole life is the history of the 
 affections. The heart is her world; it is there 
 her ambition strives for empire. 
 
 Washington Irving. 
 
 Women never lie more astutely than when 
 they tell the truth to those who do not believe 
 them. Anonymous. 
 
 A woman's friendship borders more closely on 
 love than man's. Coleridge. 
 
 Women never weep more bitterly than when 
 they weep with spite. Eicard. 
 
 To love her is a liberal education. 
 
 Congreve. 
 
 13a 
 
It is to woman that the heart appeals when it 
 needs consolation. Demoustier. 
 
 Irregular vivacity of temper leads astray the 
 hearts of ordinary women in the choice of their 
 lovers and the treatment of their husbands. 
 
 Addison. 
 
 A woman without beauty knows but half of 
 life, Mme, de Monta/rcm. 
 
 The only confidence that one can repose in the 
 most discreet woman is the confidence of her 
 beauty. Le Mesle. 
 
 A knot of ladies got together by themselves is a 
 very school of impertinence and detraction, and it 
 is well if those be the worst. Stmft. 
 
 Never say man, but men; nor women, but 
 woman; for the world has thousands of men 
 and only one woman. Weisa. 
 
 133 
 
But one thing on earth is better than the wife 
 -that is the mother. Sehe/er, 
 
 A virtuous woman has in the heart a fibre less 
 or a fibre more than other women ; she is stupid or 
 sublime. Balzac. 
 
 In every loving woman there is a priestess of 
 the past. Amid, 
 
 All women are good — good for nothing, or good 
 for something, Cerva/ntes. 
 
 Women are a new race, re-created since the 
 world received Christianity. 
 
 Henry Wa/rd Beecher, 
 
 Beauty, in a modest woman, is like fire or a 
 sharp sword ,at a distance: neither doth the 
 one bum nor the other wound those that come 
 not too near them. Cervantes, 
 
 134 
 
What woman desires is written in heaven. 
 
 La Ghau89ie. 
 
 "Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious 
 gift to man. Her mission and throne is the 
 family. Todd. 
 
 Of all heavy bodies, the heaviest is the woman 
 we have ceased to love. Lemontey. 
 
 If a wife can indnce herself to submit patiently 
 to her husband's mode of life, she will have no 
 difficulty to manage him. Airistotle. 
 
 Men would be saints if they loved God as they 
 love women. St Thomas. 
 
 Than woman there is no fouler and viler fiend 
 when her mind is bent on ill. Homer, 
 
 I3S 
 
A woman forgives everything but the fact that 
 you do not covet her. De Mvsset. 
 
 The desire to please ia bom in women before 
 the desire to love. J>e Lendos. 
 
 Of all things that man possesses, women alone 
 take pleasure in being possessed. 
 
 Malherhe. 
 
 "Women and young men are apt to tell what 
 secrets they know from the vanity of having 
 been trusted. Chesterfield. 
 
 Women are like pictures; of no value in the 
 hands of a fool, till he hears men of sense bid 
 high for the purchase. Fa/rquhar. 
 
 The best woman is the one least talked about 
 
 Schilier. 
 
 X36 
 
In this advanoed century a girl of sixteen 
 knows as much as her mother, and enjoys her 
 knowledge much more« Anonymotu. 
 
 In love, a woman is like a lyre that surrenders 
 its secrets only to the hand that knows how to 
 touch its strings. Balzac. 
 
 Men say knowledge is power; women think 
 dress is power. Sheldon. 
 
 She 18 the most virtuous woman whom Nature 
 has made the most voluptuous, and reason the 
 coldest. La Beaumelle. 
 
 For one woman who afifronts her kind by 
 wicked passions or remorseless hate, a thousand 
 make amends in age and youth. 
 
 Machay. 
 
 «I7 
 
It is often woman who inspires ns with the 
 great things that she will prevent us from 
 accomplishing. Dumaa, 
 
 A man who is known to have broken many 
 
 hearts is naturally invested with a tantalising 
 charm to women who have yet hearts to be 
 broken. Boyesen. 
 
 Between a woman's " yes " and " no " I would 
 not venture to stick a pin. 
 
 Cervantes, 
 
 A woman's love is often a misfortune; her 
 friendship is always a boon. 
 
 M^ziires, 
 
 A woman's head is always influenced by her 
 heart, but a man's heart is always influenced 
 by his head. Blessington. 
 
 Women love always; when earth slips away 
 from them they take refuge in heaven. 
 
 Anonymoue, 
 
 t* 
 
The finger of the first woman loved is like that 
 of God : the imprint of it is eternal. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 Most women prefer that we shonld talk ill of 
 their virtue rather than of their wit or of their 
 beanty. Fontenelle. 
 
 In buying horses and in taking a wife, shut 
 your eyes tight and commend yourself to God. 
 
 Tv^ccm Proverb. 
 
 All women desire to be esteemed; they care 
 much less about being respected. 
 
 Dumaa. 
 
 Women are women but to become mothers : 
 they go to duty through pleasure. 
 
 Joubert. 
 
 Coquetry is a net laid by the vanity of women 
 to ensnare that of man. Bruin. 
 
 119 
 
To a woman of delicate feeling, the most per- 
 suasive declaration of love is the embarrassment 
 of an intellectual man. De Latena. 
 
 A coquette is to a man what a toy is to a child j 
 as long as it pleases him he keeps it. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 When A woman once begins to be ashamed of 
 what she ought not to be ashamed of, she will not 
 be ashamed of what she ought. 
 
 Titus Livius. 
 
 Friend, beware of fair maidens! When their 
 tenderness begins, our servitude is near. 
 
 Victor Hugo, 
 
 That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion 
 of which man seems incapable, but which is some- 
 times found in women. MacavZay, 
 
 i#o 
 
A pretty woman's worth some pains to see. 
 
 Brotoning. 
 
 If you wish a coquette to regard you, cease to 
 regard her. Anonymous. 
 
 Women of forty always fancy they have found 
 the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain 
 young in the midst of the ruins of their day. 
 
 The perfect loveliness of a woman's countenance 
 can only consist in that majestic peace which is 
 founded in the memory of happy and useful years, 
 full of sweet rec-ords. Bvskin. 
 
 Trust your dog to the end ; a woman — till the 
 first opportunity. Proverb. 
 
 In mythology no god falls in love with Minerva. 
 A mannish woman only attracts a feminine man. 
 
 Sheldon. 
 
W!Rt>mm antr tf)t ^Mit^ 
 
 Women have the same desires as men, but do 
 not haye the same right to express them. 
 
 Eovsseau. 
 
 Youth feeds on its own flowery pastures; in 
 pleasures it builds up a life that knows no trouble 
 till the name of virgin is lost in that of wife. 
 
 Sophocles. 
 
 The world is so unjust that a female heart 
 which has once been touched is thought for ever 
 blemished. Steele, 
 
 Nature and custom would, no doubt, agree in 
 conceding to all males the right of at least two 
 distinct looks at every comely female countenance. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 We love handsome women from inclination, 
 homely women from interest, and virtuous women 
 from reason. Eoussaye. 
 
 i4« 
 
There is something still more to be studied than 
 a Jesuit, and that is a Jesuitess. 
 
 Eugene Sue, 
 
 Uneducated men may escape intellectual de- 
 gradation; uneducated women cannot. 
 
 Sydney Smith. 
 
 A woman and her servant, acting in accord, 
 would outwit a dozen devils. Proverb. 
 
 Cast in so slight and exquisite a mould, so mild 
 and gentle, so pure and beautiful, that earth 
 seemed not her element, nor its rough creatures 
 her lit companions. Dickens. 
 
 The wife is a constellation of virtues ; she's the 
 moon, and thou art the man in the moon. 
 
 Congreve. 
 
 Scylla must have broken off many excellent 
 matches in her time, if she insiste<l upon all that 
 loved her loving her dogs also. Lamb, 
 
 143 
 
A light wife doth make a heavy husband. 
 
 Shakespea/re, 
 
 Trust a poor woman to dress her children in 
 finery. Mitchell, 
 
 A woman is turned into a love-magnet by a 
 tingling current of life running around her. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 Women smd maidens must be praised, whether 
 truly or falsely. Oerman Proverb. 
 
 The supreme beauty of Greek art is rather male 
 than female. Winckelmcmn, 
 
 The man is the head of thd woman, but she 
 rules him by her temper. 
 
 Bussia/n Proverb. 
 
Women are in general more addicted to the 
 petty forms of vanity, jealousy, spitefulness, and 
 ambition, and they are also inferior to men in 
 active courage. Lecky, 
 
 Certain importunities always please women, 
 even when the importuner does not please. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 It is difficult for a woman ever to try to be any- 
 thing good when she is not beheved in, — when it 
 is always supposed that she must be contemptible. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 Woman's beauty, the forest's echo, and rainbowp 
 soon pass away. Germcm Proverb. 
 
 The starry crown of woman is in the power of 
 her affection and sentiment and the infinite en- 
 largements to which they lead. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 I4S 
 
^imoman anlJ tje 512att0 
 
 However much woman may need deliverance 
 from some outward trials and disabilities, her 
 grand want is a freer, deeper, richer, holier inward 
 life. Alger. 
 
 He that hath a fair wife never wants trouble. 
 
 Proverb. 
 
 The man who awakes the wondering, trembling 
 passion of a young girl always thinks her affec- 
 tionate. George ElioU 
 
 A woman, unlike Narcissus, seeks not her own 
 image and a second I ; she much prefers a not I. 
 
 Bichter. 
 
 Woman is seldom merciful to the man who Is 
 timid. Lytton, 
 
 A wife! ft mother! two magical words, com- 
 prising the sweetest source of man's felicity. 
 Theirs is the reign of beauty, of love, of reason, — 
 always a reign. Aimi Maa^in, 
 
 146 
 
Woman is the dwelling-place of religion, and 
 communicates it to the young. 
 
 Cfumning, 
 
 The first and chief thing that should be looked 
 for in a woman is fear. Tolstoi. 
 
 A woman fascinates a man qnite as often by 
 
 what she overlooks as by what she sees. 
 
 Rolmes. 
 
 "Women have no fear of marriage, because they 
 are so occupied in imagining the happiness it may 
 bring them that they never think of the possible 
 misery it includes. Anonymous. 
 
 Devotion is the last love of women. 
 
 Scnnt-Evremond. 
 
 A woman with whom one discusses love is 
 always in expectation of something, 
 
 Poincdot. 
 
 147 
 
WLtman anil t^t WSiiiB 
 
 TSie beauty of some women has days and 
 seasons, and depends upon accidents which 
 diminish or increase itw Cervcmtea. 
 
 We meet in society many attractive women 
 whom we would fear to make our wives. 
 
 D^Ha/rlevUle. 
 
 The woman who plays with the love of a loyal 
 man is a curse ; she may close his heart for ever 
 against all confidence in her sex. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 It is the male that gives charm to womankind, 
 that produces an air in their faces, a grace in 
 their motions, a softness in their voices, and a 
 delicacy in their complexions. Addison. 
 
 In life, woman must wait until she is asked to 
 love, as in a salon she waits for an invitation to 
 dance. Ka/iTs 
 
 MS 
 
A sharp eye can almost always see the train 
 leading from a young girl's eye or lip to the "I 
 love you " in her heart. ffolmeSo 
 
 Women, wind, and fortune soon changa 
 
 Spcmish Proverb. 
 
 A woman without a laugh in her ... is the 
 greatest bore in nature. Thackeray. 
 
 To women, mildness is the best means to be 
 right. Mme, de Fontaines. 
 
 Women bestow on friendship only what they 
 borrow from love. Chamfort. 
 
 The best shelter for a girl is her mother's wing. 
 
 Anonymoug. 
 
 14^ 
 
Whoever, allured by riches or high rank, marries 
 a vicious woman is a fool. Ewripides. 
 
 For a woman to be at once a coquette and a 
 bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can 
 bear. La Bruyere. 
 
 A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a 
 wretched man. Victor Hugo, 
 
 A good woman is a hidden treasure ; who dis- 
 covers her will do well not to boast about it. 
 
 La Eoche/oucaiUd, 
 
 Women are twice as religious as men ; all the 
 world knows that. Holmes, 
 
 The most dreadful thing against women is the 
 character of the men who praise them. 
 
 Anonymotu, 
 
 ISO 
 
A woman is naturally as mnch more capricious 
 than a man as she is more susceptible. A slighter 
 shock suffices to jostle her delicate emotions out 
 of delight into disgust. Alger. 
 
 Love thy wife as thy soul; shake her as a 
 plum-tree. Russian Proverb. 
 
 Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it 
 attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and 
 the seoBes. Voltaire. 
 
 Time is the sovereign physician of all passions. 
 
 Montaigne. 
 
 Obstacles usually stimulate passion, but some- 
 times they kill it. Sa/nd. 
 
 Folly was condemned to serve as a guide to Lovp 
 whom she had blinded. La Fontaine. 
 
 151 
 
The future of society is in the hands of the 
 mothers. If the world was lost through woman, 
 she alone can save it. De Beaufort. 
 
 The breaking of a heart leaves no traces, 
 
 Scmd. 
 
 From the moment it is touched, the heart can- 
 not dry up. Bourdaloue. 
 
 'Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a 
 woman to want a confidant. Farquha/r, 
 
 How many women would laugh at the funerals 
 of their husbands if it were not the custom to 
 weep. Anonymoius. 
 
 Venus with ease engenders wiles in knowing 
 dames ; but a woman of simple capacity, by reason 
 of her small understanding, is removed from folly. 
 
 Ev/ripidi8. 
 
 Il« 
 
Modesty in women has great advantages; it 
 Buhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeK- 
 ness. FonteneUe. 
 
 Of all wild beasts, on earth or in the sea, the 
 greatest is a woman. Anonymous* 
 
 One must tell women only what one wants to 
 be known. Beauma/rchais. 
 
 Speak to women in a style and manner proper 
 to approach them, they never fail to improve by 
 your counsels. Steele, 
 
 A woman without religion is even worse, a 
 flame without heat, a rainbow without colour, a 
 flower without perfume. Mitchell. 
 
 A woman once fallen will shrink from no 
 impropriety. Tacitus, 
 
 «5S 
 
I don't want a woman to weigh me in a 
 balance; there are men enough for that sort of 
 work. Holmes. 
 
 Women soften onr character, and yet make us 
 heroic. The same traits of character produce 
 these different effects. Channing. 
 
 Women, like empresses, condemn to imprison- 
 ment and hard labour nine-tenths of mankind. 
 
 ToUtoi, 
 
 There is one dangerous science for women, one 
 which let them indeed beware how they profanely 
 touch ; that of theology. Bv^kin. 
 
 A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness. 
 
 Proverb. 
 
 There will be so many more women in heaven 
 than men that any marriage, except of the 
 Mormon kind, would be impossible. 
 
 Sheldon. 
 
 IS4 
 
Coquette — a female general who builds her 
 fame on her adrances. Field, 
 
 When, like spoiled children, women cry for the 
 moon, it is because they have heard that the moon 
 contains a man. Brovme, 
 
 Women famed for their valonr, their skill in 
 
 politics, or their learning, leave the duties of their 
 own sex in order to invade the privileges of ours. 
 
 Goldamith. 
 
 Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone ; 
 man only knows man's insensibility to a new 
 gown. Jcme Austen. 
 
 Women in this degenerate age are rare, to 
 whom aught else but sordid gain is dear. 
 
 Ariosto. 
 
 Woman, divorced from home, wanders un- 
 friended like a waif upon the waves. 
 
 Goethe, 
 
 155 
 
Women are right to crave beauty at any price, 
 since beauty is the only merit that men do not 
 contest with them, Dupuy. 
 
 Your true flirt plays with sparkles ; her heart, 
 much as there is of it, spends itself in sparkles ; 
 she measures it to sparkle, and habit grows into 
 nature. Mitchell, 
 
 The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, 
 and may be overcome; the prejudices of women 
 emanate from the heart, and are impregnable. 
 
 Boyer cPArgens. 
 
 Women are the poetry of the world in the same 
 sense as the stars are the poetry of heaven. 
 
 Hargrave. 
 
 The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable 
 passion of women, coeval with the act of breath- 
 ing. Lesage. 
 
 Women of the world never use harsh expres- 
 sions when condemning their rivals. 
 
 Anonymotts, 
 
 (S» 
 
Women are, for the most part, good or bad, as 
 they fall amongst those who practise virtue or 
 vioo, Johnson. 
 
 Women exceed the generality of men in love. 
 
 La BrvA/ere, 
 
 Women commend a modest man, and like him 
 not. Proverb. 
 
 A delicate woman is the best instrument ; she 
 has such a magnificent compass of sensibilities. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 To say •* Everyone is talking about him " is a 
 eulogy; but to say "Everyone is talking about 
 her" is an elegy. Anonymous. 
 
 Curiosity is on© of the forms of feminine 
 bravery. Victor Hugo. 
 
 »S3L 
 
Confound the make-believe women we have 
 burned loose in our streets. Eelmes. 
 
 It is easier to take care of a peck of fleas than 
 of one woman. Proverb. 
 
 Women are like thermometers, which, on a 
 sudden application of heat, sink at first a few 
 degrees, as preliminary to rising a good many. 
 
 Eichter. 
 
 Until we know woman, we know not strength 
 of love. In this we have, perhaps, the best 
 emblem of omnipotence as well as divine good- 
 ness. Chcmning, 
 
 A coquette sparkles, but it is more the sparkle 
 of a harmless and pretty vanity than of calcula- 
 tion. Mitchell. 
 
 Her step is music, and her voice is song. 
 
 «s« 
 
^ISaoman antr tf^t Wiit^ 
 
 Man carves his destiny; woman is helped to 
 hers. JtUia Wwrd Howe, 
 
 If the women did not make idols of ns, and if 
 they saw us as we see each other; would life be 
 bearable or could society go on f 
 
 Thacheray, 
 
 "Women are apt to love the men who they think 
 have the largest capacity of loving. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 There are few women whose charms survive 
 their beauty. La Eoche/oucauld, 
 
 A woman despises a man for loving her unless 
 she happens to return his love. 
 
 Mizaheth Stoddard. 
 
 Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman, 
 and the first she takes from her. 
 
 IW 
 
Women must have their wills while they live, 
 because they make none when they die. 
 
 Proverb. 
 
 "Women never truly command till they have 
 given their promise to obey ; and they are never 
 in more danger of being made slaves than when 
 the men are at their feet. FoArquhar. 
 
 A woman who is gnided by the head, and not by 
 the heart, is a social pestilence. Balzcic, 
 
 An asp would render its sting more venomous 
 by dipping it into the heart of a coquette. 
 
 Foineelot 
 
 Voluptuaries know what they talk about wnen 
 they profess not to care for sense in woman. 
 
 Leigh fftmL 
 
 A woman who has surrendered her lips has 
 surrendered everything. Viaud. 
 
 i6o 
 
WS^ovxm anil tje WSiit$ 
 
 A woman repents sincerely of her fault only 
 after being weaned from her infatuation for the 
 one who induced her to commit it. 
 
 Jh Zaiena, 
 
 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's 
 form, poor and sad and single, in some Dolly or 
 Joan, go out to service. Em&rson^ 
 
 Woman, naturally enthusiastic of the good and 
 beautiful, sanctifies all that she surrounds with 
 her affection. Merder, 
 
 Woman have more understanding than w« 
 have, and women of spirit are not to be won by 
 mourners. Steele. 
 
 Marry a virgin, that thou mayst teach her dis- 
 creet manners. Sesiod, 
 
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SHoman ariti tt^t Wiitsi 
 
 Pretty women gaze at a beauty with envy, 
 homely women with spite, old men with regret, 
 young men with transport. D^Argens. 
 
 Hell is paved with women's tongues. 
 
 Abbd Guy on. 
 
 A woman is more influenced by what she 
 divines than by what she is told. 
 
 De Lenclos. 
 
 We never fall in love with a woman, in distinc- 
 tion from women, until we can get an image of 
 her through a pinhole. Holmes. 
 
 However talkative a woman may be, love 
 teaches her silence. Eochebrime. 
 
 There is something so gross in the carriage of 
 some wives that they lose their husbands' hearts. 
 
 BudgeU, 
 
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?12aoman m^ tjr W&.it^ 
 
 Men declare their love before they feel it; 
 women confess theira only after they have 
 proved it. De Latenck. 
 
 In love it ia only the commencement that 
 charms. I am not surprised that one finds 
 pleasure in frequently recommencing. 
 
 Prince de Ligne. 
 
 The heart of a loving woman is a golden 
 sanctuary, where often there reigns an idol of 
 clay. Lifnayra^; 
 
 Women call repentance the sweet remembrance 
 of their faults and the bitter regret of their in 
 ability to recommence them. 
 
 Virtue, with some women, is but the precaution 
 ol locking doors. LemotUey, 
 
 163 
 
She had married her husband for his wit, and 
 was willing co do the next best thing for any man 
 who was wittier. Francis Prevost. 
 
 Women are often ruined by their sensitiveness 
 and saved by their coquetry. 
 
 Mdlle. Azais. 
 
 In love only the awkward are punished — like 
 the Spartan thieves. Anonymous. 
 
 The action <^ woman on our destiny is unceas- 
 ing. ZfOrd Beaconsfield. 
 
 The weaknesses of women have been given them 
 by nature to exercise the virtues of men. 
 
 Mme, Neeher, 
 
 The most chaste woman may be the most 
 voluptuous, if she loves. Miraheau. 
 
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Love renders chaste the most voluptuous 
 pleasures. Virey. 
 
 Manners, morals, customs change : the passions 
 are always the same. 
 
 Mme. de FlahauL 
 
 Discretion is more necessary to women than 
 eloquence. Du Bose. 
 
 Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their 
 liberty, and women their happiness. 
 
 Mme, de Biettx, 
 
 Orpheus went to Hell to find his wife: how . 
 many widowers would not even go to Heaven to 
 find theirs ? Fetit-Senn, 
 
 When a lover gives, he demands — and much 
 more than he has given. Faem/y, 
 
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A reputation for snccess has as much inflaence 
 with women as a reputation for wealth has with 
 men. Lord Beaconsfield. 
 
 Women give themselves to God when the Devil 
 wants nothing more to do with them. 
 
 Sophie Amovld. 
 
 The beauty of a young girl should speak to the 
 imagination, and not to the senses. 
 
 Konr, 
 
 Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty. 
 
 Massias, 
 
 Women distrust men too much in general, and 
 not enough in particular. Commerson. 
 
 There is a magic in Duty which sustains 
 judges, inflames warriors and cools the married. 
 
There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, 
 and beautiful women that are unlovable. 
 
 Love is a beggar who still begs when one has 
 given him everything. Bochepedre, 
 
 The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers 
 that leave the country more verdant and beautifuL 
 
 Mme» Necker, 
 
 The desire to please is bom in woman before 
 the desire to love, De Lendos. 
 
 A prude ought to be condemned to meet only 
 indiscreet lovers. Eaisson. 
 
 Science seldom renders men amiable; women 
 oeyer, Beauchene. 
 
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Women are in the moral world what flowers 
 are in the physioaL Mar^chal. 
 
 Who loves not women, wine and song, remaina 
 u fool his whole life long. 
 
 Martin Luther, 
 
 Virtue and Love are two ogres : one must eat 
 the other. D'HoudetoL 
 
 LoTe never dies of starvation^ but often of 
 indigestion. De Lendos. 
 
 Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that 
 flatters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is 
 bitter. Diderot. 
 
 A woman with whom one discusses love 
 always in expectation of something. 
 
 Paincelot. 
 
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fHoman antr t$e SSaite 
 
 The society of women endangers men's moralfl 
 and refines their manners. 
 
 MorUesqtiieu, 
 
 Love pleases more than marriage, for the 
 reason that romance is more interesting than 
 history. Cham/ort. 
 
 Fortune hath somewhat of the nature of a 
 woman, who, if she be too closely, wooed, is 
 commonly the further off. Cha/rles V, 
 
 Great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love 
 do not make us laugh. Voltaire, 
 
 One is always a woman's first lover. 
 
 De Laclos, 
 
 Even if women were immortal, they could never 
 foresee their last lover, Lammenais, 
 
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Devotion is the last love of women. 
 
 St Evremond, 
 
 Love, that sometimes corrupts pure bodies, 
 often purifies corrupt hearts. LaUna. 
 
 Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a 
 woman more contemptible and more dangerous 
 than a courtesan who never lies. 
 
 De Varennes, 
 
 Marriage is often but ennni for two. 
 
 Commerson. 
 
 Love that seldom gives ns happiness, at least 
 makes ns dream of it. S4nanoowrU 
 
 "Woman is the most precious jewel taken from 
 Nature's casket for the ornamentation and happi- 
 ness oi man. Guyar^-, 
 
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Wiomm antr ft^t JSSB.iiB 
 
 Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes 
 better than the dinner. Lacon. 
 
 Love is like medical science — the art of assisting 
 Nature. LaMemcmd. 
 
 To continue love in marriage is a science. 
 
 Mme. Reyhcmd. 
 
 The mistake of many women is to return senti- 
 ment for gallantry. Jouy, 
 
 It is not love that ruins us ; it is the way we 
 make it. Bv^sy-Edbutin. 
 
 Marriage in our days? — I would almost say 
 that it is a rape by contract. 
 
 Michdet. 
 
 A coquette often loses her reputation while she 
 possesses her virtue. Spectator, 
 
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ISEoman antr ti^z Wiitsi 
 
 A lover is a man who endeavotirs to be more 
 amiable than it is possible for him to be : this is 
 the reason why almost all lovers are ridiculous. 
 
 Chatnfort. 
 
 Those who always speak well of women do not 
 know them enough ; those who always speak ill 
 of them do not know them at all. 
 
 Pigault-I/ebrtm, 
 
 Possession is the touchstone of love. 
 
 Panage, 
 
 Beauty is the first gift Naturer gives to woman, 
 and the first she takes from her. 
 
 It is a terrible thing to be obliged to love by 
 contract. Bussy-Eobbutin, 
 
 Our strong passions break into a thousand 
 purposes; women have one. 
 
 Lord BeaconsfielcL 
 
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Women alone can organise a drawing-room 
 man succeeds sometimes in a library. 
 
 Lard Beaconsfield. 
 
 Male firmness is very often obstinacy. Women 
 have always something better, worth all qualities. 
 They have tact. Lord Beaconsfield. 
 
 The woman who is talked about is generally 
 virtuous, and she is only abused because she 
 devotes to one the charms which all wish to 
 enjoy. Lord Beaconsfield. 
 
 There is no mortification, however keen, no 
 misery, however desperate, which the spirit of 
 woman cannot in some degree Kghten or alleviate. 
 
 Lord Beaconsfield. 
 
 The affections are the children of ignorance; 
 when the horizon of our experience expands, and 
 models multiply, lo7e and admiration imper- 
 ceptibly Tanish. Lord Beaconsfield. 
 
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Where there are crowned heads there are 
 always some charming women. 
 
 Lord Beaconsjield, 
 
 There is nothing a man of good sense dreads 
 in a wife so much as her having more sense than 
 himself. Fielding. 
 
 It is only a woman that can make a man 
 become the parody of himself. 
 
 French Proverb, 
 
 There will always remain something to be said 
 of woman, as long as there is one on the earth. 
 
 Boujien, 
 
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