"All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions."

"Femmina è cosa garrula e fallace: Vuole e disvuole, è folle uom chi sen fida, Si tra se volge."

"I read somewhere that their periods attract bears. The bears can smell the menstruation."

"One way to hold a woman is not to hold her."

"O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts. ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream."

"Neque fœmina, amissa pudicitia, alia abnuerit."

"Aut amat, aut odit mulier, nihil est tertium."

"Aperte mala quum est mulier, tum demum est bona."

": Thanks, gentle Echo, right thy answers tell, What woman is, and how to guard her well. : Guard her well."

"Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavour to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then crow wise for spite."

"Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex."

"Rainy and rough sets the day,— There's a heart beating for somebody; I must be up and away,— Somebody's anxious for somebody. Thrice hath she been to the gate,— Thrice hath she listen'd for somebody; 'Midst the night, stormy and late, Somebody's waiting for somebody."

"Une femme qui n'a pas été jolie n'a pas été jeune."

"Wine, women and song"

"A woman is an angel at ten, a saint at fifteen, a devil at forty, and a witch at fourscore."

"La langue des femmes est leur épée, et elles ne la laissent pas rouiller."

"一顾倾人城，再顾倾人国。"

"У ба́бы во́лос до́лог, да ум ко́роток."

"Mulier est hominis confusio."

"— Woe. — 120. — Found wherever man exists. Seldom in free state. — Very active. Boils at nothing and may freeze any min. Melts when properly treated. Very bitter if not well used. Able to absorb great am'ts of expensive food. Turns green when placed beside a better looking specimen. Ages rapidly. — Highly ornamental. Useful as a tonic in acceleration of low spirits, etc. Equalizes distribution of wealth. Is probably the most powerful (income) reducing agent known. — Highly explosive when in inexperienced hands!"

"She's an angel in truth, a demon in fiction; O, Woman's the greatest of all contradiction; She's afraid of a cockroach, she'll scream at a mouse. But she'll tackle a husband as big as a house. She'll take him for better, she'll take him for worse; She'll split his head open and then be his nurse. And when he is well and can get out of bed, She'll pick up a teapot and throw at his head. She's faithful, deceitful, keensighted and blind: She's crafty, she's simple, she's cruel, she's kind; She'll lift a man up, she'll cast a man down. She'll make him her king, and she'll make him her clown. You fancy she's this, but you find she is that, For she'll play like a kitten, and bite like a cat. In the morning she will, in the evening she won't, And you're always expecting she does but she don't."

"God made women beautiful so that men would love them, and he made them foolish so that they would love men."

"Intuition—Suspicion in skirts."

"To say "every one is talking about him" is an eulogy; but to say "every one is talking about her" is an elegy."

"After man came woman. And she has been after him ever since."

"Femina consilio prudens, pia, prole beata, Auxit amicitiis, auxit honore virum."

"Thus I the Womens Secrets have survey'd, And let them see how curiously they're made; And that, tho' they of different Sexes be, Yet in the Whole they are the same as we: For those that have the strictest Searchers been, Find Women are but Men turn'd Out-side-in: And Men, if they but cast their Eyes about, May find they're Women, with their In-side-out."

"Whilst Adam slept, Eve from his side arose: Strange! his first sleep should be his last repose."

"Am I not a woman and a sister?"

"The woman whose love you desire is a rib of the Devil himself!"

"Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand: Wer ist die schönste Frau in dem ganzen Land?"

"Sans les femmes le commencement de notre vie serait privé de secours, le milieu de plaisirs, et la fin de consolation."

"A womane is a worthy wyght, She serveth a man both daye and nyght; Therto she puttyth all her myght, And yet she hathe but care and woo."

"Moder and maydyn Was never non but che; Well may swych a lady Godes moder be."

"I syng of a mayden That is makeles; Kyng of alle kynges To here sone che ches."

"Early one morning, just as the sun was rising, I heard a maid sing in the valley below: "Oh, don't deceive me; Oh, never leave me! How could you use a poor maiden so?""

"Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river (united) with the ocean."

"'If my mother, going astray and unfaithful, conceived illicit desires, may my father keep that seed from me,' that is the scriptural text."

"(When creating them) Manu allotted to women (a love of their) bed, (of their) seat and (of) ornament, impure desires, wrath, dishonesty, malice, and bad conduct."

"Women do not care for beauty, nor is their attention fixed on age; (thinking), '(It is enough that) he is a man,' they give themselves to the handsome and to the ugly. Through their passion for men, through their mutable temper, through their natural heartlessness, they become disloyal towards their husbands, however carefully they may be guarded in this (world). Knowing their disposition, which the Lord of creatures laid in them at the creation, to be such, (every) man should most strenuously exert himself to guard them."

"No man can completely guard women by force; but they can be guarded by the employment of the (following) expedients: Let the (husband) employ his (wife) in the collection and expenditure of his wealth, in keeping (everything) clean, in (the fulfilment of) religious duties, in the preparation of his food, and in looking after the household utensils. Women, confined in the house under trustworthy and obedient servants, are not (well) guarded; but those who of their own accord keep guard over themselves, are well guarded. Drinking (spirituous liquor), associating with wicked people, separation from the husband, rambling abroad, sleeping (at unseasonable hours), and dwelling in other men's houses, are the six causes of the ruin of women."

"He who carefully guards his wife, preserves (the purity of) his offspring, virtuous conduct, his family, himself, and his (means of acquiring) merit."

"Women must particularly be guarded against evil inclinations, however trifling (they may appear); for, if they are not guarded, they will bring sorrow on two families."

"Reprehensible is the father who gives not (his daughter in marriage) at the proper time; reprehensible is the husband who approaches not (his wife in due season), and reprehensible is the son who does not protect his mother after her husband has died."

"Day and night women must be kept in dependence by the males (of) their (famlies), and, if they attach themselves to sensual enjoyments, they must be kept under one's control. Her father protects (her) in childhood, her husband protects (her) in youth, and her sons protect (her) in old age; a woman is never fit for independence."

"At her pleasure let her emaciate her body by (living on) pure flowers, roots, and fruit; but she must never even mention the name of another man after her husband has died."

"She must always be cheerful, clever in (the management of her) household affairs, careful in cleaning her utensils, and economical in expenditure."

"In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent."