The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-04-24
WOMAN.
Opinions Of Distinguished Thinkers of all Ages
Her Virtues and Follies Compared


Confucius Woman is the masterpiece.
Franklin: He that takes wife takes
care.
Herder: Woman is the crown of crea-
ton.
LaFontaine: Foxes are all tail and
woman all tongue.
Voltaire: Women teach us repose, civil
ity and dignity.
Boucicault: | wish that Adam had died
with all his ribs in his body.
John Quincy Adams All that am my
mother made me.
Victor Hugo; Women detest the serpent
through professional jealousy.
Lessing: Nature meant to make woman
its masterpiece.
Lamartine There is a woman at the
beginning of all great things.
Fielding: In the forming of femalet
friendships, beauty seldom recommends one
woman to another
Whittier: If a woman lost us Eden,
such as she alone restores it.
Socrates Trust not woman when she
weeps, for it is her nature to weep when
she wants her will
Z. S. Barrett: Woman is last at the
cross and earliest at the grave.
Mary Wollstonecraft: As sex women
are habitually indolent, and everything
tends to make them so.
Richter No man can either live piously
or die righteous without wife
Rochebourne 1t is easier for woman
to defend her virtue against men than her
reputation against women.
N. p Willis The sweetest things in
life is the unclouded welcome of wife.
Ben Jonson A woman the more Gu
rious she is about her face is commonly the
more careless about her house.
Voltaire All the reasonings of men are
not worth one sentiment of women.
Southey: There are three things wise
man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine
of an April day, and womans plighted
faith.
Beecher: Women are new race, re-
created since the world received Christi
anity.
Swift The love of fattery in most men
proceeds from the mean opinion they have
of themselves in women from the con-
trary.
Leopold Schefer: But one thing on
earth is better than the wife-that is the
mother.
Lady Montague: 1t goes far toward re-
conciling me to being a woman when re-
feet that am thus in no danger of marry
ing one.
Shakespeare; For where is any author
in the world that teaches such beauty as
woman's eyes.
Swift The reason why such 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 repose only, but his joy, the
salt of his life.
Alphonse Carr A woman who writes
commits two sins; she increases the num-
ber of books, and decreases the number of
women.
Margaret Fuller Ossoli: Woman was
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, defenceless creatures they
would be
Louis Desnoyers; A woman may be
ugly, ill-shaped, wicked, ignorant, silly and
stupid, but hardly ever ridiculous.
Charles Buxton: Juliet was fool to
kill herself, for in three months she'd have
married again, and been glad to quit of
Romeo.
Lord Langdale If the whole world were
put into one scale, and my mother into the
other the world would kick the beam.
Chesterfield: Women are much more
alike than men; they have in truth, but
two passions, vanity and love; these are
their universal characteristics.