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All is possible to woman, for woman alone may make herself impossible.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke
Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
Affection with some women amounts almost to disease.
Beauty in woman is that potent alchemy which transforms men into asses.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
We never see the mass of women en costume, without being reminded of the artificial flies used in angling--tricked out, also, with much the same object, only that, like St. Peter, women are "fishers of men."
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY, The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
It is not the woman man can be rich with who is the most companionable, but the woman he can be poor with.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke
Feline, feminine: A quaint similarity of sound. Brutal the thought that suggests an analogy.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Woman is like a diamond with many facets: the imagination of man, the light which produces from them innumerable permutations and combinations of color. The character of woman is comparatively simple, but man imagines much and attributes it to her.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of strange women, she will expose their craft; and of her who flattereth thee, will she make known the reason.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
While a woman is losing confidence in a man she is usually reposing it in another.
Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Most women bestow their favors upon men, not from Passion, but from Compassion.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.
GELETT BURGESS, The Maxims of Methuselah
The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
The most trying misfortune that can befall a man, is to be domesticated with a bad-tempered woman.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY, The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
A woman that speaks the truth finds no favor in my eyes, for she disturbs the pretty theories I cherish about her sex.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself;--all that runs over will be yours.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Destruction often lurks in women's eyes.
Woman is the social barometer; she is an admirably contrived instrument for gauging the defects of her generation.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke
Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.
JOHN KEATS, letter to George and Georgiana Keats, Oct. 14, 1818
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