25 Blushes are the rainbow of modesty. — Mme. Necker. 26 Man forms and educates the world, but woman ed cates man. Julie Burow. 27 We triumph over calumny only by disdaining it.Mme. de Maintenon. 28 Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten, a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years. - Ruffini. 29 Of all the relations of womanhood, wives and mothers only can enjoy "the harvest song of inward peace." Mrs. Barbauld. 30 Our strong passions break into a thousand purposes women have one. Their love is dangerous, but their hate is fatal. Beaconsfield. 31 Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into, as society out of the dissolution of wedded love. — Bartol. 32 A woman possessing nothing but outward advantages is like a flower without fragrance, a tree without fruit. Facomy Regnier. 33 Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. Michelet. 34 A wise woman confides in few persons, a cunning one 35 A woman's patriotism is more of a sentiment than a man's, more passionate; it is only an extension of the domestic affections, and with her la patrie is only an enlargement of home. In the same manner a woman's idea of fame is always a more extended sympathy, and is much more of a presence than an anticipation. To her the voice of fame is only the echo-fainter and more distant of the voice of love. - Mrs. Jameson. 36 Speak low if you speak love. - Shakespeare. 37 There is on earth no greater treasure or more desirable possession for man than a woman who truly loves him. Sainte-Foix. 38 A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued. Miss Braddon. 39 An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, or a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. Addison. 40 It is almost always to save telling a great deal that women tell a little to their husbands. Rochebrune. 41 Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. - Mme. du Deffand. 42 Woman is the masterpiece. Confucius. 43 O pearl of all things, woman! Adored by the artist who created thee. Schiller. 44 Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce cour age, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love. - George Eliot. 45 Men have sight, women insight. - Victor Hugo. 46 Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit is feathered oftentimes with heavenly words, and, like her beauty, ravishing and pure. -Chapman. 47 The lilies faintly to the roses yield, as on thy lovely cheek they struggling vie. — Hoffman. 48 Every married man has occasion for some friend to apprise him of any omission in her conduct; for it often. happens that he is too much in love with his wife to observe, or too much afraid of offending her to prescribe the limits of, her behavior in those things, the following or eschewing of which may tend to his honor or reproach. - Cervantes. 49 It goes far toward reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one. Lady Montagu. 50 Curiosity has lost more young girls than love. - Mme. de Puisieux. 51 They are the books, the arts, the academies, that show, contain, and nourish all the world. — Shakespeare. 52 God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture it to us. Luther. 53 Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend. - Rabbi Ben Azai. 54 Delicacy is to affection what grace is to beauty. - Mme. de Maintenon. 55 A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day. - Emerson. 56 The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being, whose defects disappear under the prism through which we see her. — Emile de Girardin. 57 Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they have less trouble to speak well than to speak little. Father du Bosc. 58 A masculine character may be a defect in a female, but a masculine genius is still a praise to a writer of whatever sex. The feminine graces of Madame de Sévigné's genius are exquisitely charming, but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Staël are above the distinction of sex. Sir F. Mackintosh. 59 Blushes are the echo of sensibility. — Mme. de Salm. 60 There is always a moment in the pyramids of our lives when the apex is reached. - Ninon de Lenclos. 61 What woman can resist the force of praise? - Gay. 62 Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay, leaving doters upon red and white perplexed by incertainty both of the continuance of their mistress's kindness and her beauty, both of which are necessary to the amorist's joy and quiet. — Boyle. 63 Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade. Landor. 64 Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men. - George Sand. 65 The egotism of woman is always for two. Mme. de Staël. 66 Oh, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would be seen reposing there ! — Richter. -- 67 Alas! how enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases! — Mme. Louise Colet. 68 A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms of person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, more fools than wise men for attendants. Longfellow. 69 The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. George Eliot. |