Part 104

To place wit above sense is to place superfluity above utility.--Madame de Maintenon.

~Woe.~--No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.--Walter Scott.

Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.--Herrick.

So many miseries have crazed my voice, that my woe-wearied tongue is still.--Shakespeare.

~Woman.~--Who does know the bent of woman's fantasy?--Spenser.

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.--Heinrich Heine.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.--George Eliot.

To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of her sex.--Bulwer-Lytton.

They never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.--Bishop Whately.

The woman must not belong to herself; she is bound to alien destinies. But she performs her part best who can take freely, of her own choice, the alien to her heart, can bear and foster it with sincerity and love.--Richter.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts; because the works of this genius are always works of love.--Lamartine.

Women for the most part do not love us. They do not choose a man because they love him, but because it pleases them to be loved by him. They love love of all things in the world, but there are very few men whom they love personally.--Alphonse Karr.

Woman is the Sunday of man; not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.--Michelet.

Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.--Charles Buxton.

It goes far to reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.--Lady Montague.

Men are women's playthings; woman is the devil's.--Victor Hugo.

Sing of the nature of woman, and the song shall be surely full of variety,--old crotchets and most sweet closes,--it shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly,--one in all, and all in one!--Beaumont.

Her step is music and her voice is song.--Bailey.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.--Michelet.

Woman, sister! there are some things which you do not execute as well as your brother, man; no, nor ever will. Pardon me, if I doubt whether you will ever produce a great poet from your choirs, or a Mozart, or a Phidias, or a Michael Angelo, or a great philosopher, or a great scholar. By which last is meant, not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the angel of the resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life. If you can create yourselves into any of these grand creators, why have you not?--De Quincey.

There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.--Southey.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.--Goethe.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.--Colton.

Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through.--Ruffini.

There are female women, and there are male women.--Charles Buxton.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline!--George Eliot.

Men at most differ as heaven and earth; but women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.--Tennyson.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.--Arsène Houssaye.