There remains in the faces of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later, an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom. - Richter. Very few men understand the true significance of contentment; women alone illustrate it. Mme. Deluzy A youthful age well becomes a woman; but aged youth, alas! is quite another thing. Mme. de Sévigné. If ladies be but young and fair, they have the gift to know it. Shakspeare. Women in health are the hope of the nation. Men who exercise a controlling influence - the master spirits with a few exceptions, have had country-born mothers. They transmit to their sons those traits of character-moral, intellectual, and physical-which give stability to institutions, and promote order, security, and justice. — Dr. J. V. C. Smith. Horace Smith. WOMAN. It may be particularly observed of women, that they are for the most part good or bad as they fall among those who practise vice or virtue, and that neither education nor reason gives them much security against the influence of example. Dr. Johnson. Women detest the serpent through a professional jealousy. — Victor Hugo. Foxes are all tail; women all tongue. La Fontaine. Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently. - De Maistre. Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through. Ruffini. - There are female women, and there are male - Charles Buxton. women. I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind, of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial; and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition. Addison. Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. Colton. Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them. - Chesterfield. The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is like that begun in the garden. Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height. Women for the most part do not love us. They do not choose a man because they love him, but because it pleases them to be loved by him. They love love of all things in the world, but there are very few men whom they Gail Hamilton. | love personally. - Alphonse Karr. Women are much more like each other than men they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. - Chesterfield. It goes far to reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one. - Lady Montagu. The opinion in favor of the present system, which entirely subordinates the weaker sex to the stronger, rests upon theory alone; for there never has been trial made of any other; so that experience, in the sense in which it is vulgarly opposed to theory, cannot be pretended to have pronounced any verdict. J. Stuart Mill. There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity. Washington Irving. Who does know the bent of woman's fantasy? Spenser. It makes sweet human music, -oh! the Beaumont. The world is so unjust that a female heart which has been once touched is thought forever blemished. - Steele. Her step is music, and her voice is song. Bailey. As for the women, though we scorn and flout them, we may live with, but cannot live without them. Dryden. He that can keep handsomely within rules, and support the carriage of a companion to his he who lets her see the whole relish of his life mistress, is much more likely to prevail than depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. - Steele. Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. Michelet. What we call in men wisdom is in women prudence. It is a partiality to call one greater than the other. Steele. I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. - Ledyard. Men are women's playthings; woman is the spells that haunt the trembling tale a bright-devil's. - Victor Hugo. eyed maiden tells ! - Edwin Arnold. Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume. - Heinrich Heine. God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love. - Lamartine. Mistress, know yourself: down on your knees, and thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love for I must tell you friendly in your ear, sell when you can: you are not for all markets. Shakspeare. With soft, persuasive prayers woman wields the sceptre of the life which she charmeth; she lulls the discord which roars and glows, teaches the fierce powers which hate each other like fiends to embrace in the bonds of love, and draws together what are forever flying asunder. - Schiller. served in the minds of women, it is, like the Whatever littleness and vanity is to be ob cruelty of butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by that life which they are taught and accustomed to lead. William Law. Men at most differ as heaven and earth; but women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. Tennyson. Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self. Shakspeare. A female heart is often like marble: the cunning stone-cutter strikes a thousand blows without the Parian block showing the line of a crack; but all at once it breaks asunder into the very form which the cunning stone-cutter has so long been hammering after. - Richter. She who puts herself out of natural protection is not to expect miracles in her favor. Richardson. There are three things a wise man will not trust, the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith. - Southey. The taste forever refines in the study of women.-N. P. Willis. A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies; but a handsome fool is irresistible. Thackeray. WOOING. They never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top. Whately. Women are certainly more happy in this than we men their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part. Schleiermacher. WONDER. All last fell humbly down upon his knees, and of his wonder made religion. - Spenser. That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is He is a fool who thinks by force or skill to unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual. stem the torrent of a woman's will. Sir S. Tuke. Women equitable, logical, and utterly just! Mercy upon us! If they were, population would cease, the world would be a howling wilderness. Thackeray. Whoever finds constancy in woman, finds all things in woman. -Querbeuf. To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline. George Eliot. If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor. Dr. Johnson. Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please. - Marie Ebner-Eschenbach. In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity. Dr. Johnson. Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day. Arsène Houssaye. A clever woman has millions of born foes, all stupid men. Marie Ebner-Eschenbach. The woman must not belong to herself; she is bound to alien destinies. But she performs her part best who can take freely, of her own choice, the alien to her heart, can bear and foster it with sincerity and love. - Richter. Emerson. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head should carry all he knew. Goldsmith. If thou approachest women with tenderness thou winnest them with a word; but he who is bold and saucy comes off still better. Goethe. If words could kill a man or an evil, all men and all evil had been dead long ago; but luckily words are as blank cartridges. It is no great matter, after the discharge, to count the killed and wounded. - Bovée. With some laughing ladies, I presume, whose incessant concussion of words would not let you put in a syllable. - Colley Cibber. Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see. Joubert. Men believe that their reason governs their words; but it often happens the words have The first thing necessary to win the heart of power to react on reason. Bacon. a woman is opportunity. Balzac. - Words are often seen hunting for an idea, That would be wooed, and not unsought be but ideas are never seen hunting for words. won. Milton. The artillery of words. Swift. H. W. Shaw. Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed. Roscommon. Then shall our names, familiar in his mouth as household words, ... be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. - Shakspeare. If we use common words on a great occasion they are the most striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or every-day clothes, hung up in a sacred place. - George Eliot. Her words but wind, and all her tears but water. - Spenser. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that Words are grown so false I am loath to prove things are the sons of heaven. Dr. Johnson. reason with them. Shakspeare. Fair words gladden so many a heart. — Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent. Colton. The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom. Jeremy Bentham. -- Longfellow. |