Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Thomas Hardy

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Herman Melville

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Herman Melville

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Herman Melville

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'
Paula Poundstone

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
Sam Kinison

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Baltasar Gracian

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Agatha Christie

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Jules Renard

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Dante Alighieri

A woman can be anything the man who loves here would have her be.
James M. Barrie

On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.
Robert Peel