My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Aristotle

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
Erma Bombeck

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
Erma Bombeck

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma Bombeck

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.
Mitch Hedberg

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao Tzu

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
Mae West

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Mae West

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin

A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Deepak Chopra

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie