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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... read more
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her read more
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've read more
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had read more
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command read more
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she read more
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.