Wits and Women

Southland Times, Issue 19553, 6 May 1905, Page 2 (Supplement)

Wits and Women

Would you hurt a woman most, aim at ht-r atl'ections.—Wallace. The more idle a woman's hand the more occupied her (heart.—Dubny. Let woman stand upon her female character as upon, a foundation.—Lamb-

Women cannot see so far ns men can, but what they do see they see quicker.— Buckle.

If men knew all that women, think, they would be twenty times more audacious.—Karr.

A woman’s hopes are woven as sunbeams ; a shadow annihilates them — George Eliot. Beauty is worse than wine : it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.— Zimmerman.

Neither walls, nor goods, nor anything is more difficult to be guarded than a woman.—Alexis.

We only demand that a woman should be womanly. /That is not being exclusive.—Hunt.

Modesty in a woman is a virtue most deserving, since wo do all we can to euro her of it.—Lingree. Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their own weakness.—Mme. Du Deffend.

It is no more possible to do without a wife than It Is to dispense with dating and drinking.—Luther;

When joyous, a woman’s ffosnse Is not to be endured ; when in terror she is a plffguo AEschylus.

If woman did turn man out of Paradise, she has done her best ever since to make it up to him —Sheldon. Men always say more, evil of a woman than there really is ; and there is always more than Is known.—Mezeray. Lovers have, in their language an infinite number of words in which each syllable is a caress. —Rochefedre.

A heart which has been domesticated by matrimony and maternity is as tranquil as a tame bullfinch.—Holmes. A beautiful woman pleases the eya, a good woman pleases the heart ; one is a jewel, the other is a treasure. —Napoleon I.

A man cannot possess anything that is Better than a good womqn, nor anything that is worse than tr bad one—. Simon Ides.

How wisely it is constituted that tender and gentle women shall be our earliest guides, instilling their own spirits. — Channing.

it is generally a feminine eye that firstdetects tie moral deficiencies hidden under the ” dear deceit ” of beauty. — Georg'e Eliot. To eduegtp a tnan is to form an individual who leaves nothing behind him ; to educate a woman is to form future, generations.—Laboulaye.

It is not easy to be a widow. One must resume all the mddesty of girlhood wllifont befng allowed even to feign ignorance.—Mme. De Glradln.

Beloved darlings, who diver over and shadow many malicious purposes vqith a counterfeit passion ot dissimulate sorrow and uifquietness.—Sir Walter Raleigh, What it is that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so shout disruption ? It is the interest of love and the jealousy of conquest.— Rousseau.

To give you nothing and t» niake you expect- everything ; to dawdle on the threshold of love while the doors are closed : this is the science it a coquette. —T. Bernard.

Women have a perpetual envy of our vices , they are loss vicious than we, not from choice, but because we restrict t-htem ; they are -the slaves ot order and fashion.—J dlinson.

I am a strenuous advocate for liberty and property ; but when these rights are invaded by a pretty woman, I am neither

able to defend my money nor my freedom.—Junius.

Women speak easily of platonic lov» ; but, while they appear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilet that does uot drive platonisml, from our hearts. —Ricard.