My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
Cat Stevens

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

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs

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

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

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad

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

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.
Bob Dole

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Emile Zola

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ovid

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Ovid

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
Thomas Huxley