Women Quotes

After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.

Ian Ker

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live

Have you ever been to Paris before?" I asked Kylian."No, though from what I've seen, I'm sure it's worth a trip. And even with what little I saw I think it's quite fitting for you to be the Patroness of Paris. You're like Paris and Paris is like you.""Noisy?""A mystery.

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.

Émilie Du Châtelet

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

Why do women always do this? Why are they so eager to blame themselves when someone treats them like sh*t? A guy would take a cheese grater to his tongue before admitting he screwed up.

She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.

Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't...As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.

S.A.R.K.

Now or never was the time.

Laurence Sterne

Who hesitate and falter life away and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.

Christina Rossetti

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Go ahead with your life your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

Richard L. Evans

A hard beginning makes a good ending.

We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Sir John Denham

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.

Alonzo Newton Benn

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Sir Walter Scott

The distance doesn't matter only the first step is difficult.

Madame Marquise du Deffand

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?

More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.

Anonymous

There is no such thing as a long piece of work except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.

Horace

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try and perhaps failing.

Vladimir Zworykin

All know the way few actually walk it.

Seize opportunity by the beard for it is bald behind.

Bulgarian proverb

Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear the best way is to do them in their proper time.

Ida Scott Taylor

If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water.

English Proverb

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.

Rosalynn Carter

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Sandra Day O'Connor

If a man would move the world he must first move himself.

Socrates

Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare

O wild dark flower of woman Deep rose of my desire An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.

C. G. D. Roberts

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

Such Polly are your sex - part truth part fiction Some thought much whim and all contradiction.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

Friedrich von Schiller

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men ... and why on the contrary they are inferior to men as regards justice and less honourable and conscientious.

O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!

Fraily thy name is woman!

William Shakespeare

In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.

The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.

George Bernard Shaw

A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium.

Syrus

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life and avoid it as much as possible.

There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament.

William Wordsworth

Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.

Johann von Goethe

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say "Yes I've got dreams of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it and yep they're still there. These are great dreams but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

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