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Quotes about Women


Eyes of pure women, wholesome stars of love.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

For men at most differ as heaven and earth,
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

Round and round, like a dance of snow
In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go
Floating the women faded for ages,
Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages.

Robert Browning

Men must work, and women must weep.
And there's little to earn and many to keep,
And the harbor bar is moaning.

Charles Kingsley

To say why gals acts so or so,
Or don't, 'ould be persumin';
Mebby to mean yes an' say no
Comes nateral to women.

James Russell Lowell

In the faces of men and women I see God.

Walt Whitman

They [the Pilgrim Fathers] fell upon an ungenial climate, where there were nine months of winter and three months of cold weather and that called out the best energies of the men, and of the women too, to get a mere subsistence out of the soil, with such a climate. In their efforts to do that they cultivated industry and frugality at the same time--which is the real foundation of the greatness of the Pilgrims.

Ulysses Simpson Grant

With women the heart argues, not the mind.

Matthew Arnold

For there be women, fair as she,
Whose verbs and nouns do more agree.

Francis Bret Harte

Betsy, like all good women, had a temper of her own.

Will Carleton

? John Bartlett, compLor', but women's rum cattle to deal with, the first man found that to his cost,
And I reckon it's just through a woman the last man on earth'll be lost.

George Robert Sims

An' I learned about women from 'er.

Rudyard Kipling

Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.

Bidpai

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Terence

For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.

Cicero.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Plutarch

In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

Who does not love wine, women, and song
Remains a fool his whole life long.

Miscellaneous Translations

Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

Old Testament

In that day seven women shall take hold of one man.

Old Testament

Novels are created by men and women who put bottom to chair and pen to paper

Women will ever go for the experienced man. They can oft see experience in a man's eyes

So many of our troubles spring from nature, not from the actions of men. Or women

Men carry an image like a banner. They see in mirrors only what they wish to see. Women are more realistic

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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