Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-07-07
WICKED WITS.
cynical Sayings of So-CaIled Phil.
OSOpherS.


pins.
Dryden: She hugged the offender
and forgave the otiense-sex to the
last.
German Proverb: A woman has
never spoiled anything through ST.
lnece.
German Saying: He who has a
handsome wife must have more than
two eyes.
Balzac: What saves the virtue OF
many woman is that protecting god,
the impossible.
Charles Nodier: OF all animals, cats,
flies and women take the longest time
in dressing.
Jean Jacques Weiss: Men never are
consoled for their first love, nor wo-
men for their last.
Marivaux: Many women would be
quite aniable if they could forget that
they are amiable.
Delphine de Girardin: There is only
one way to praise n woman it is to
talk i'll of her rival.
Nine. Scuderi: Men should keep
their eyes wide open before marriage
and half shut afterward.
italian Proverb: Who takes an eel
by the tail and a woman at her word,
may say he holds nothing.
Lord Bacon: Wives are young mems
mistresses, companions for middle age,
and old mems nurses.
Proverbs xxi, 10: 1t is better to
dwell in the wilderness than with
contentious and angry woman.
Alphonse Karr: Friendship between
two women is never anything but
plot against third woman.
Jerrold: A man frequently admits
that he was in the wrong: woman
never-she was only mistaken.
Alexandra Dumas: All women de-
sire to be esteemed; they care much
less about being respected.
Spanish saying: No woman sleeps
so soundly that the twang of a guitar
will not bring her to the window,
Joan Jan4uas Woiss. A woman elias
twice; the day that she quits life and
the day that she ceases to please.
Fontenelle: A beautiful woman is
the hell of the soul, the purgatory of
the purse and the paradise of the
eyes.
Metternich: To ask favor a man
says to himself, "What shall / say9"
woman meditates, "What shall /
wear?"
Jean Jacques Weiss: Nothing is so
sure cure for the love of women rs
acquaintance with the men that they
admire.
Swift: The reason why so few mar
riages are happy is because young
ladies spend their time in making
nets, not in making cages.
w. D. Howells: After a number of
years of married life, a woman learns
to let a man have his own way in
some unimportant matters.
Alexandra Dumas: The Bible says
that woman is the last thing that God
made. He must have made it on Sat-
urday night. 1t shows fatigue.
Antiphanes: One thing only be-
lieve in q woman, that she will not
come to life again after she is dead
in everything else l distrust her till
she is dead.
Lord Bacon: He that hath wife and
children hath given hostages to for
tune; for they are impediments to
great enterprises either OF virtue or
mischief.
w. d. Howells: Don't you think
the most circuitous kind of q fellow
would be pretty direct compared with
the straight forwardest kind of girli
George Eliot: Half the sorrows Of
women would be averted if they could
repress the speech they know to be
useless-nay, the speech they have
resolved not TO utter.
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.
Daudet: There is often seen this
anomaly in women, especially in those
of childish natures-that they pos
sess at once great promptness and un-
skillfulness in falsehood.
Beaconsfield: Talk to women as
much as you can. This is the best
school. This is the way to gain
fluency, because you need not care
what you say and had better not be
sensible.
Douglae Jerrold: Women are all
alike. When they're mild as milk.
once make 'em wives, and they lean
their backs against their marriage GER
tificates and defy you.
Anonymous: When you are but
slightly acquainted with the lady you
admire, and wish to know all her
faults, it is only necessary to commend
her among her female acquaitances.
Delphine de Girardin: Every book
written by q woman bears the mark OF
affection BY which it was inspired. 1t
is Of works OF women particularly that
one may say with Buaon' "The
style is the man."
Weber: Sainted Solomon! You
call the man happy to whom heaven