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A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in read more
A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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.
 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, 
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her
 Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
 And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
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 Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
 And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
  But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their 
rudeness,
   Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good. 
 Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the 
shell of a tortoise, to signify read more 
 Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the 
shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous 
woman, which are to keep home and be silent.