Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-15
ANGEL OR DEMON?
Contras ing Opinions of Women by Mon
of All Ages.

Heine: "Every man who marries is
like the doge who weds the Adriatic sea;
he knows not what he may find therein
treasures, pearls, monsters, unknown
storms"
Balzac: "Woman is most charming
creature, who changes her heartas easily
as she does her gloves"
Victor Hugo: women detest the
serpent through professional jeal-
onsly."
Thackeray: "a good woman is the
loveliest flower that blooms under heav-
en-"
Punch: 'The proper study of mankind
is woman"
Socrates: "Trust not woman when
she weep for it Is her nature to weep
when she wants her will"
Thackeray: "a woman's heart is just
like lithographer's stone. What is
once written upon it can not be rubbed
out"
Fleming: "He who trusts women
draws water with pitchers full Of holes. I"
Shakespeare:
She is mine own,
And as rich in having such jewell
AS twenty seas, II all their sands were pearl,
The waters nectar and the rocks pure gold.
franklin: HE that takes a wife takes
Care"
Gotz:
He who marries once may be
Pardoned his infirmity;
He who marries twice is mad
Shakespeare:
Women are frail,
Ay, as the glasses when they view themselves.
Dryden:
As for the women, though we scorn and dout 'em,
We may live with, but can not live without 'em.
Voltaire: "Ideas are like boards
men never have any until they grow up,
and women none at ALL"
Dumas: "Some women advocate pla-
tonic love, but none practice it."
Shakespeare: "Frailty, thy name is
woman"
Jeremy Taylor: Woman, the precious
porcelain Of human clay"
Chesterfield: Very ugly or very
beautiful women should be Aattered on
their understanding and mediocre ones
on their beauty"
Beaconsfeld: THE girl of the period
She sets up to be natural and is only
rude; mistakes insolence for innocence
says every thing that comes to her lips,
and thinks she is gay when she is only
giddy."
Proverbs xii, A: IA virtuous woman
is crown to her husband"
Milton:
1t lis for that such outward ornament
Was lavish'd on the sex, that inward gifts
We left for haste unfinished.
s. Levi; Beware of girls with rec
hair"
Goethe: Happy is the man who pos
sesses virtuous wife; his life i.
| doubled"
Victor Hugo: "Men are womans play
things; women are the DEVILS"
De Prades: II would not enter Heav
en- if thought the woman adored OF
earth was not there"
George D. Prentice: "If man is hap
PLY married his rib is worth all tn,
other bones of his body"
Virgil: woman is ever a tickle anC
changeable creature"
Tennyson: MAN dreams of fam,
while woman wakes to love"
Moliere: st is more difficult to rul,
a wife than kingdom"
Lord Chesterfield: "Women are to b.
talked to as below men and above chill
dren."
Richter: Love lessons woman's del
icacy and increases mans"
Beaconsfeld: Talk to women a
much as you can. This is the bes
school, This is the way to gain fiuency
because you need not care what you say
and had better not be sensible"
Seward; "The porch of o temple i
the interior Of Japan has this inscrip
ton: Neither horses, cattle nor wome
admitted here"
Anna c, Steele: "Women are general
consistent in their insincerity, If /
nothing else"
Bulwer Lytton: soil and Water
women and secret-are hostile proper
ties. "-Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
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