The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08
WOMAN.

Opinions of Distinguished Thinkers of all
Ages-IIer Virtues and TolIios Conn
pared.
Confucius: Woman is the masterpiece.
Franklin: He that takes a wife takes
care.
Uerder: Woman is the crown of crea-
ton.
LaFontaine: Foxes are all tail and wo-
man all tongue
Noltaire Women teach us repose, civil
ity and dignity.
Boucicauit: | 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 sell
pent through professional jealously.
Lessing: Nature meant to make wo-
man its masterpiece.
Lamartine: There is a woman at the
beginning of of all great things.
Fielding: In the forming of female
friendships, beauty seldom recommends
one woman to another.
Whittier: If a woman lost us Eden,
such as she alone restores it.
Socrates: Trust not a woman when she
weeps, for it is her nature to weep when
she wants her will
+. 5. Barrett: Woman is last at the
cross and earliest at the grave.
h,,1,
men are habitually indolent, and every
thing tends to make them so.
Richter No man can either live piously
or die righteous without wife.
Rochebourne: 1t is easier for wo-
man 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 Johnson: A woman the more Gu
rious she is about her face is commonly
the more careless about her house.
Noltaire: All the reasonings of men
are not worth one sentiment of womt n.
Southey: There are three things
wise man will not trust; the wind, the
sunshine, of an April day, and wo-
mans plighted faith.
Beecher: Women are a new race, re-
created since the world received Christi
anity.
Swift: The love of flattery 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 Ear toward re-
conciling me to being a woman when
reflect that am thus in no danger of
marrying 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.
MicheIet: Woman is the Sunday of
Man; not his rcpose only, but his joy, the
salt of his life.
Alphonso Carr: A woman who writes
commits two sins; she increases the num-
Der of books and decreases the number
of women.
Margaret Fuller Ossol: Woman was
born for love, aud 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: \ woman may be
ugly, i'll shaped, wicked, ignorant, silly
and stupid, but hardly ever ridiculous.
Charles Buxton: Juliet was fool to
kill herself, for in three months shed
have married again, and been glad to
quit Of Romeo.
Lord I.angdale: 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.