Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.

Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage

Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage

Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
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Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;
And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.

Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise:
At least be more than I was; and be sure
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Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise:
At least be more than I was; and be sure
You credit anything the light gives life to
Before a man.

It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the
cock is silent.
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It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the
cock is silent.
[Fr., C'est chose qui moult me deplaist,
Quand poule parle et coq se taist.]

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung,
Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;
She, while read more

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung,
Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;
She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave,
Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.