II. To love, to marry, to rear a family, is by no means an entire statement of the obligations and privileges of women, because no woman always has lover, husband, or children; many fail to have all of them in succession, and a few never have either of them. WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER. WOMEN are intellectually more desultory and volatile than men; they are more occupied with particular instances than with general principles; they judge rather by intuitive perceptions than by deliberate reasoning or past experience. WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY. No woman is too silly not to have a genius for spite. ANONYMOUS. THERE is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been a mistake. She has lost her crown. GEORGE ELIOT. THERE are plenty of women who believe women to be incapable of anything but to cook, incapable of interest in affairs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. GOSSIPING like crazy old women, chattering with toothless gums and silly brains about the dreams and joys of their youth, yet unable to recall one single thought or feeling with that vigor which once gave it life and truth. MAX MÜLLER. A WOMAN is happy, and attains all that she desires, when she captivates a man; hence the great object of her life is to master the art of captivating men. COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOÏ. THE secret of youthful looks in an aged face is easy shoes, easy corsets, and an easy conscience. ANONYMOUS. WHO does not know the bent of woman's fancy? EDMUND SPENSER. THE girl who wakes the poet's sigh is a very different creature from the girl who makes his soup. FREDERICK SHELDON. WOMEN know a point more than the devil. ITALIAN PROVERB. You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better material, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. JOHN RUSKIN. To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of her sex. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON. DID you ever hear of a man's growing lean by the reading of "Romeo and Juliet," or blowing his brains out because Desdemona was maligned? OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. GREAT women belong to history and to self-sacrifice. LEIGH HUNT. IN little duties women find their sphere, THE heart of a coquette is like a rose, of which the lovers pluck the leaves, leaving only the thorns for the husband. ANONYMOUS. In our age women commonly preserve the publication of their good offices and their vehement affection toward their husbands until they have lost them. MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE WHEN Women cannot be revenged, they do as children do, they cry. AND this is woman's fate : All her affections are called into life By winning flatteries, and then thrown back Upon themselves to perish. L. E. LANDON. THE ever-womanly draws us above. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. I LOVE men, not because they are men, but because they are not women. QUEEN CHRISTINA. FLOW, wine! smile, women! and the universe is consoled. PIERRE JEAN BÉRANGER. OUR good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth that she forgets what she is by match. THOMAS FULLER. WOMEN, born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold. EDMUND WALLER. DISCRETION is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they have less trouble to speak well than to speak little. FATHER Du Bosc. THERE is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise. MARTIN LUther. WOMEN live only in the emotion that love gives. ARSENE HOUSSAYE. ON great occasions it is almost always women who have given the strongest proofs of virtue and devotion. COUNT MONTHOLON. 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. A WOMAN is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred. It is so many more triumphs for her. NINON DE LENCLOS. THERE is a woman at the beginning of all great things. ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE. |