Women Quotes - Page 39

• I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

  John Gay

  Mind

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 2, sc. 3

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• Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

  John Gay

  Lying, Believe, Born

  John Gay (1791). “The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera. By John Gay. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the Prompt-book, ...”, p.65

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• Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

  Dorothy Dix

  Kissing, Want, Hungry

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• An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

  Earl Wilson

  Husband, Police, Records

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• What does a woman want? More.

  Chris Evans

  Doe, Want, Women Want

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• The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

  Virgil

  Leadership, Leader, Deeds

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• Women... can't live with 'em...... can't shoot 'em

  Steven Wright

  Ems, True Lies

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• Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.

  William Congreve

  Flames, Destroying

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• A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

  James Thurber

  Husband, Party, Home

  James Thurber (2002). “Thurber Country: A Collection of Pieces about Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species”

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• When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Life, Together, Stories

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex.

  Earl Wilson

  Sex, Thinking, Opposites

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• Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

  Christopher Morley

  Novelty, World, Fifty

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• A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

  Voltaire

  Inspiration, Secret, Age

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• Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

  Virgil

  Fickle

  Virgil (1961). “The Aeneid”

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• There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

  Menander

  Sea, Land, Beast

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• Women are one and all a set of vultures.

  Petronius

  Vulture

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• Do not jump the gun because of gossip.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Gun, Gossip

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• Because a jackass brays doesn't mean you have to take it to heart.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Heart, Mean, Jackasses

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• Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.

  John Gay

  Passion, Wind, Mind

  John Gay (1752). “Poems on Several Occasions: Epistles on several occasions. Tales. Eclogues. Miscellanies. Dione, a pastoral tragedy”, p.185

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• Just because a jackass brays does not mean you have to pay attention.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Mean, Doe, Attention

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• The best exercise in the world is to bend down and help someone up.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Exercise, World, Down And

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• Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Exercise, Unconditional Love, Pet

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• Sometimes the most important conversations are the most difficult to engage in.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Important, Sometimes, Conversation

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• Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Love Is, Cells, Mates

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• And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

  John Gay

  Giving, Cases, Knows

  'Fables' (1727) 'The Hare and Many Friends' l. 41

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