Don't tell me about God having made such creatures to be companions for us! I don't say but He might make Eve to be a companion for Adam in Paradise--there was no cooking to be spoilt there, and no other woman to cackle with and make mischief; though you see what mischief she did as soon as she'd an opportunity.
Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions today.
WILLIAM BOLITHO, Twelve Against the Gods
To awake a woman's curiosity is to make her pliable.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
Woman is the salvation or destruction of the family. She carries its destinies in the folds of her mantle.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL, journal, Dec. 11, 1872
Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.
JOHN TODD, Woman's Rights
It is easier to make a glass tube pliable than to convince an obstinate woman she is in fault.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
- No man ever reaches manhood
- till a woman's tenderness
- Is a part of his possession.
EDWIN LEIBFREED, "The Conquerors"
For one to admire a woman merely for her beauty, is to love the building for its exterior; but to love one for the greatness of her soul, is to appreciate the tenement for its intrinsic value.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
ALFRED TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
Most fashionable ladies are as diamonds because they are more costly than useful.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.
An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
Woman began at zero, and has through ages slowly unfolded and risen. Each age has protested against growth as unsexing woman.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
When the hour of adversity arrives, when false friends are scattered, when we are moving through the keen atmosphere of selfishness, then it is that the virtuous wife, like an angel of light, shines with peculiar lustre.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
Men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
YASMINA REZA, The God of Carnage
It's the silliest lie a sensible man like you ever believed, to say a woman makes a house comfortable. It's a story got up, because the women are there, and something must be found for 'em to do. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha' been left to the men.... I tell you, a woman 'ull bake you a pie every week of her life, and never come to see that the hotter th' oven the shorter the time.
Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age.... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.
TRACY LETTS, August: Osage Country
The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women ... they're all masochists at heart.
HENRY MILLER, Tropic of Cancer
A woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.
ELBERT HUBBARD, The American Bible
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
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