The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-11-19
WHAT WITS HAVE
SAID ABOUT WOMEN


Would you hurt a woman most ann
at her affections-Wallace.
The more idle a Woman's hand the
more occupied her heart.-Dubay.
Let woman stand upon her female
character as upon a foundation
Lamb.
Women cannot see so far as men
can, but what they do see they see
quicker.-Buckle.
II men knew all that women think
they would be twenty times more au-
dacious-Karr.
A woman's hopes are woven as sun
beams: a shadow annihiates them.-
George Eliot.
Beauty is worse than wine-it in
toxicates both the holder and the be-
Zimmerman.
Neither walls, nor goods, nor any
thing is more difficult to be guarded
than woman.-AleXis.
We only demand that woman
should be womanly. That is not being
exclusive.-Hunt.
Modesty in a woman is virtue
most deserving, since we do all we
can to cure her of it.-Lingree.
Women are never stronger than
when they arm themselves with their
own weakness.-Mme. Du Deffand.
1t is no more possible to do without
a wife than it is to dispense with eat
ing and neutrality-suspicious.
When joyous, a Woman's Incense is
not to be endured; when in terror, she
lis plague.-Aeschylus.
If woman did turn man out of para
disc, she has done her best ever since
to make it up to him.-Sheldon.
Men always say more evil of wo-
man than there really is; and there IS
always more than is known.-Mezeray
Lovers have in their language an in
finite number of words in which each
syllable is a caress-Rochefedre.
A heart which has been domesticated
by matrimony and maternity is as
TRANQUIL as a. tame bullf1nch.-Holmes.
A beautiful woman pleases the eye,
a good woman pleases the heart; one
is a jewel, the other a treasure.-Na-
poleon /.
A man cannot possess anything that
is better than a good woman, nor any
thing that is worse than bad one-Sl-
mon Ides.
How wisely it is constituted that
tender and gentle woman shall be our
earliest guides, instilling their own
spirits.-Channing
1t is generally a feminine eye that
first detects the moral deficiencies hid
zen under the dear deceit of beauty.
George Eliot.
To educate a man is to form an
individual who leaves nothing behind
him; to educate a woman is to form
future nerations.-Lauolaye.
1t is not easy to be a widow. One
must resume all the modesty of girl
hood without being allowed even to
feign ignorance.-Mme. de Girardin.
Beloved darlings, who cover over and
shadow many malicious purposes with
a counterfeit passion of dissimulate
sorrow and unquietness.-Sir Walter
Raleigh.
What is it that renders friendship
between women so lukewarm and of so
short duration? 1t is the interests OF
love and the jealousy of conquest
Rousseau.
To give you nothing and to make
you expect everything; to dawdle on
the Threshold of love while the doors
are closed-this is all the science of a
coquette.-T Bernard.
Women have a perpetual envy of our
vices; they are less vicious than we,
not from choice, but because we re-
strict them; they are the slaves of or
der and fashion-Johnson.
am a strenuous advocate for liberty
and property; but when these rights
are invaded by pretty woman, L am
neither able to defend my money nor
my freedom.-Junius.
Women speak easily of platonic love;
but, while they appear to esteem it
highly, there is not a single ribbon of
their toilet that does not drive platoon
ism from our hearts.-Ricard.