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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.
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
You forget too much
That every creature, female as the male,
Stands single in responsible act and read more
You forget too much
That every creature, female as the male,
Stands single in responsible act and thought
As also in birth and death.
Woman's love is writ in water,
Woman's faith is traced in sand.
- Sir Robert Aytoun read more
Woman's love is writ in water,
Woman's faith is traced in sand.
- Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of Kincaldie,
What is lighter than the wind? A feather.
What is lighter than a feather? Fire.
What lighter read more
What is lighter than the wind? A feather.
What is lighter than a feather? Fire.
What lighter than a fire? A woman.
What lighter than a woman? Nothing.
[Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma
Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.]
I think Nature hath lost the mould
Where she her shape did take;
Or else I doubt read more
I think Nature hath lost the mould
Where she her shape did take;
Or else I doubt if Nature could
So fair a creature make.
The lady doth protest too much, me thinks
The lady doth protest too much, me thinks
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad,
And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad;
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Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad,
And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad;
But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their
sadness,
Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad.