Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow read more

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms

Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms

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

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

It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the
cock is silent.
[Fr., read more

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.]

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a
brawling woman in a wide read more

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a
brawling woman in a wide house.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does read more

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.