God cursed the snake, but it finds sustenance everywhere. God cursed the woman, but all men pursue her.
~ Talmud, Yoma, 75
Adams owed more to the American woman than to all the American men he ever heard of, and felt not the smallest call to defend his sex who seemed able to take care of themselves; but from the point of view of sex he flt much curiosity to know how far the woman was right, and, in pursuing this inquiry, he caught the trick of affirming that the woman was the superior. Apart from truth, he owed her at least that compliment.
~ Henry Adams in The Education of Henry Adams
Woman is the chain by which man is attached to the chariot of folly.
~ Bharitihari, in The Sringa Satak
Nothing enchants the soul so much as young women. They alone are the cause of evil and there is no other.
~ Bharitihari, in The Sringa Satak
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
~ Marcus Porcius Cato
After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.
~ Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richards Almanac
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Sir, a woman’s preaching in like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
~ Samuel Johnson, in a letter to the Earl of Chesterfield, July 31, 1763
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Who is the most frequently mentioned woman in the Bible?
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Author Brunonia Barry talks about her latest book, The Lace Reader
Yesterday I had lunch with a friend at a Thai restaurant. He mentioned that he has family members who have been serving as missionaries in Hungary. It made me think of a poem I had read in Carl Sandburg’s Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
Happiness
I asked professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness.
And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men.
They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool them.
And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river.
And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.
So I guess happiness is having women, children, beer and an accordion (or an acoustical guitar).
Tacitast melior mulier semper quam loquens. [A woman is always worth more seen than heard.]
~ in Rudens -1114
Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur, dum valet sentit sapit. [He whom the gods love dies young, while he has strength and senses and wits.
~ in Bacchides, -816
There is a Connection between Licentiousness and Liberty, that it is not easy to correct the one, without dangerously wounding the other.
History is only a confused heap of facts.
A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch.
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
Women are much more like each other than men; they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
Women, especially, are to be talked to, as below men, and above children.
