WOMAN
A woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order. Edmund Burke
O woman, woman, when to ill thy mind
Is bent, all hell contains no fouler field. Homer
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity, are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome. Lord Chesterfield
What is woman? only one of Nature's agreeable blunders. Hannah Cowley
Woman are door-mats and have been, -
The years those mats applaud, -
They keep their men from going on
With muddy feet to God. Mary Carolyn Davies
A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally. Lilian Day
Mark her majestic fabric; she's a temple
Sacred by birth and built by hands divine;
Her soil's the deity that lodges there:
Nor is the pile unworthy of the god. John Dryden
Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples. Goethe
A woman is a foreign land,
Of which, though there he settles young
A man will ne'er quite understand
The customs, politics, and tongue. Coventry Patmore
Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. Ambrose Bierce
"Petticoat influence" is a great reproach ....
I for one venerate a petticoat -
A garment of a mystical sublimity.
No matter whether russet, silk or dimity. Lord Byron
The man who strikes his wife or child lays violent hands upon the holiest of holy things. Marcus Cato (Plutarch)
As the faculty of writing has been chiefly a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has been always thrown upon the women. Samuel Johnson
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed in the world, forsomuch as only men have established them without their consent. Montaigne
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. Leo Tolstoy
Women, like princes, find few real friends;
All who approach them their own ends pursue;
Lovers and ministers are seldom true. George Lyttelton
Iago: She was a wight, if ever such wight were, -
Desdemona: To do what!
Iago: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.
Desdemona: O most lame and impotent conclusion! William Shakespeare
Labels: Human Relations, Sexism, That's Life, Traditions
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, March 06, 2011
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