Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-07-24
LOVELY WOMAN.
The Opinions Of the Distinguished
Thinkers Of All Ages--Her
Virtues and Her Follies
Compared.


piece.
Franklin: lie that takes wife
takes care.
Herder: Woman is the crown of
creation.
La Fontaine: Foxes are all tail
and women all tongue.
Voltaire: Women teach us reposc,
civility and dignity.
Boucicault: | wish that Adam had
died with all his ribs in his body.
John Quincy Adams: All that l
am my mother made me.
Victor Hugo Women detest the
serpent through professional jcal-
ousy.
Leasing: Nature meant to make
woman its masterpiece.
Eugene Sue: There is something
still worse to be dreaded than ,Jes-
uii, and that is Jcsutess.
Lamartne: There is a woman at
the beginning of all great things.
Fielding: In the forming Of fe-
male friendships beauty seldom rec
Ommends one woman to another.
Whittier: If woman lost lis Eden,
such as she alone can restore it.
Socrates: Trust not woman
when she weeps, for it is her nature
TO weep when she wants her will.
e. S. Barrett: Woman is the last
at the cross and the first at the grave.
Mary Wollstonccraft AS sex,
women are habitually indolent, and
every thing tends to make them so.
Richter: No man can either live
piously or die righteous without a
wife.
Rocheburne 1t is easier for a
woman to defend her virtue against
men than her reputation against
women.
Mp. Willis: The sweetest thing
in life is the unclouded welcome OF
a wife.
Ben Johnson: A woman, the more
curious she is about her face, is COM
monty the more careless about her
house.
Voltaire: All the reasonings OF
men are not worth one sentiment OF
women.
Southey: There are three things a
wise man will not trust-the wind
sunshine of an April day, and a wo'
mans plighted faith.
Beecher: Women are new race
re-created since the world received
Chritianity.
Swift: The love of fattery in most
men proceeds from the mean opinion
they have of themselves, in women
from the contrary.
Leopold Schefer: But one thing on
earth is better than the wife-that is
the mother.
Lady Montague 1t goes far towards
reconciling me to being woman
when | reflect that l am thus in nc
danger of marrying any one.
Shakspere For where is any author
in the world teaches such beauty a;
woman's eyes.
Swift: The reason why so few mar.
riages are happy is because young
ladies spend their time in making nets
not in making cages.
Nichelet: Woman is the Sunday
of man; not his repose only, but his
joy, the salt of his life.
Margaret Fuller Ossoli: Woman is
born for love, and it is impossible to
turn her from seeking it.
Douglas Jerrold: What women
would do if they could not cry, nobody
knows. What poor defenseless crea-
lures they would be.
Louis Desnoyers A woman may
be ugly, ill-shaped, wicked, ignorant
silly and stupid, but hardly ever ride.
ulOus.
Charles Buxton: Juliet was a fool
to kill herself, for in three months
she'd have married again, and been
glad to be quiet of Romeo.
Lord Langdale: If the whole world
were put in one scale, and my mother
the other, the world would kick the
beam.
Chesterfield: Women are mucl
more alike than men; they have, in
truth, but two passions, vanity and
love; these are their universal char.
acteristics.
Malherbe: There are only two
beautiful things in the world, women
and roses; and only two sweet things
women and melons.
Bishop Signori: DO not allow your
daughter to be taught letters by 8
man, though he be St. Paul or St
Francis of Assist. The saints are in
Heaven.
Bulwer Lytton: o, woman, in or.
binary cases so mere mortal, how
in the great and rare events of life
dost thou swell into an angel
De Maistre: 1t is not the mediocri
ty of wOmen's education which makes
their weakness; it is their weakness
which necessarily causes the me-
diocrity.
Saville Women have more strength
in their looks than we have iu oul
laws; and more power by their tears
than we have by our arguments.