Quotes About Wisdom

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man.

Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

"Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.