Women Quotes - Page 102

Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

Women don't realize how powerful they are

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.

When a guy says, "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," he means "Don't make a fuss over my birthday". When we say "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," we mean "Give me a surprise party. Do something lavish. Just don't tell everyone my age."

How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.

America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

A bevy of fair women.

A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.