Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-08-17

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Confaeius: Woman is the crown
MASTERPIECES.
Franklin: he that takes . wife
takes care.
Hsrder: Woman i the crown Of
creation.
La FOat.ine: Fone. are tail and
women al tongue.
Voltaire; Woman teaches us re-
p0ss. civility and dignity.
Boueieanlt: | wish that Adam
bad died with all his ribs in his BODY.
John Quincy Adams: All that I
am my mother made me.
Victor Hugo: Women detest the
serpent through . professional jeal-
ousy.
Mary Wollstonecraft: IA a sex
| women are habitually ihacIent, and
everything tends 10 make them so.
Richter No man can either live
piously or die righteous without .
wife.
Rochebrune: Il il easier for q wo-
man TO defend her virtue against
men that her reputation against wo-
men.
N. P. Willis: The sweetest thing
in life il the uncleuded welcome Of q
wife.
Ben. johnson: A woman, the more
curious she 10 about her face. il CON-
only the more careless about her
house.
Voltaire: All the reasOnings Of men
are not worth one sentiment Of wo-
men.
Southey: There are three things
. wise man will not trust. the wind,
the sunshine Of an April day, and a
woman's faith.
Beecher: Women are new race.
recreated since the world received
Christianity.
Swift the love of fattery in most
men proceeds from the mean opinion
they have Of themselves; in women,
from the contrary.
Leopold Scheler: But one thing on
earth is better than the wife-Lhat ia
the mother.
Lady Montague It goes far to.
ward reconciling me TO being a wo-
man when / reflect that am thus
in no danger of marrying one.
Shakespeare: For where is any
author in the world teaches such
l beauty as womans ewes.
Swift: The reason why 90 few mar
riages are happy is because young
ladies spend their time in making
nets. not in making cages.
Michelet: Woman Is the Sunday of
man; not his rspOse only, but his JOY.
the salt Of his LIE.
Alphonso Karr: A woman who
writes commits two sins; she increas-
es the npmher of books, and decreases
| the number Of women.
| Margaret Fuller Ossoli: Woman 10
born Cor love. and il 10 impossible 10
turn her from seeking il.
Douglass Jerrold: What woman
would do if they could not cry, mo-
body knows! What poor defenseless
creatures they would bel
Louis Desncyers: A woman may
be ugly. i'll shaped, wicked. ignorant.
silly and stupid. bat hardly ever ridi-
culous.
Charles Buxton:: Juliet was a fool
to Kill herself, for in three months
d have married again. and been
glad to be quit of Romeo.
Lord Langdale: IL the whole world
were put into one scale, and my moth
or into the other, the world would
kick the beam.
Chesterfield: Women are much
more alike than men they have, in
truth, bat two passions, vanity and
loye, these are their universal char
acteristics.
Malherbe: There are only two beau
tiful things in this world, woman and
roses; and only two sweet things,
women and melons.
Bishop Signori: Do not allow your
daughter TO be taught letters by a
man, though he be st. Paul or st.
Francis of Assist. The saints are in
heavenl
Bulwer Lytton: o, woman in ordi-
nary cases 80 mere q mortal, how, in
the great and rare events Of life dost
thou swell into the angel
DeMaistre: 1t Is not the mediocre
ty Of women's education which makes
their weakness: it is their weakness
which necessarily causes their medi-
ocrity.
Laville: Women have more strength
in their looks than we have in our
laws, and more power by their tears
than we have BY our arguments.
Retif de la Bretonne: The life of q
woman Is a long Discrimination. Can
dor, beauty, freshness. virginity. mod
esty,--a woman has each Of these bnt
once. When lost, she must simulate
them the rest Of her life.
Samuel Smiles: The women Of the
poorer classes made sacrifices, and
run risks and bear privations. and
exercise patience and kindness TO n
degree that the world never knows Of.
and would scarcely believe. even If il
did.