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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well! - Barbara Bush, at Wellesley College Commencement The souls of women are so small, That some believe they've none at all; Or if they have, like cripples, still They've but one faculty, the will. - Samuel Butler (1), Miscellaneous Thoughts There are female women, and there are male women. - Charles Buxton Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn. - Charles Buxton "Petticoat influence" is a great reproach, Which e'en those who obey would fain be thought To fly from, as from hungry pikes a roach; But since beneath it upon earth we're brought By various joltings of life's hackney coach, I for one venerate a petticoat-- A garment of mystical sublimity, No matter whether russet, silk, or dimity. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) She was a soft landscape of mild earth, Where all was harmony, and calm, and quiet, Luxuriant, budding; cheerful without mirth, Which, if not happiness, is much more nigh it Than are your mighty passions. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Some waltz; some draw; some fathom the abyss Of metaphysics; others are content With music; the most moderate shine as wits, While others have a genius turn'd for fits. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) The very first Of human life must spring from woman's breast: Your first small words are taught you from her lips; Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs Too often breath'd out in a woman's hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Beppo (st. 45) Soft as the memory of buried love, Pure as the prayer which childhood wafts above. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 6) The Niobe of nations! There she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 79) Her stature tall--I hate a dumpy woman. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 61) A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto III, st. 60) What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger Is woman! What a whirlwind is her head, And what a whirlpool full of depth and danger Is all the rest about her. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto IX, st. 64) I love the sex, and sometimes would reverse The tyrant's wish, "that mankind only had One neck, which he with one fell stroke might pierce;" My wish is quite as wide, but not so bad, And much more tender on the whole than fierce; It being (not now, but only while a lad) That womankind had but one rosy mouth, To kiss them all at once, from North to South. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto VI, st. 27) But she was a soft landscape of mild earth, Where all was harmony, and calm, and quiet, Luxuriant, budding; cheerful without mirth. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto VI, st. 53) I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto VI, st. 53) And whether coldness, pride, or virtue dignify A woman, so she's good, what does it signify? - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XIV, st. 57) Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), English Bards and Scotch Reviewers She was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), The Dream (st. 2) The world was sad; the garden was a wild; And man, the hermit, sigh'd--till woman smiled. - Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 37) Of all the girls that are so smart, There's none like pretty sally; She is the darling of my heart, And lives in our alley. - Henry Carey, Sally in our Alley What a woman says to her fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.] - Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus), (Latin) There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself so even amidst an army of soldiers. [Sp., La mugur que se determina a ser honrada entre un ejercito de soldados lo puede ser.] - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), La Gitanilla Displaying page 4 of 23 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
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