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Letter "M" » Men and Women
«A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.»
Author: Chauncey Depew
(Industrialist, Politician)
| About:
Funny,
Men and Women,
Optimism
| Keywords:
all women, hopes, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists, thinks
«A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power»
Author: George Meredith
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
treasure, wittiest, witty
«A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.»
Author: Helen Rowland
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
grain, Grain of salt, puts, salt, salted, says, She, sugar, sugared, takes, The Sugar, to a man
«A woman's beauty is one of her great missions»
«A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.»
Author: Sophia Loren
(Actress)
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
barb, barbed, barbed wire, dress, fence, fenced in, fence in, fencing, obstructed, obstructing, obstructs, on the fence, serving, The View, view, wire, wired, wires, wiring
«A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.»
«A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her»
Author: Helen Rowland
| About:
Criticism,
Flattery,
Heart,
Love,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
contracted, contracting, contracts, criticism, flatteries, flattery, inflate, inflated, inflates, straight
«A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
across, conversation, mere, study, table
«A woman's life is a history of the affections»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
affections, History of, History of the
«A woman's answer is never to seek»
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