Samuel Richardson Quotes - Page 3

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

The unhappy never want enemies.

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

He only who gave life has a power over it.