Quotes About Wisdom

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.

Most of the things that I learn are from the women in my life.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

Do not jump the gun because of gossip.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

The rich man and his daughter are soon parted.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things.

I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's very attractive.

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

Old age is women's hell.

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.