WOMAN

(Riddle)

• Soft of heart, and weak of arms, but she shakes the whole world. (Malambot ang puso’t mahina ang bisig, ngunit ginagalaw ang buong daigdig.)
• When yet an infant, a European; when grown up, a Filipina. (Nang sanggol pa’y Europea nang lumaki’y Pilipina.)
• Weakness is her symbol, honor is her wealth; modesty is her virtue; and beauty is her capital asset. (Sagisag ay kahinaan, puri ang kayamanan, hinhin ang katangian, at ganda ang puhunan.)
• Many are looking for it but only one is lucky to find it.

(Quotations)

·         Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they’re shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they’re rude; but the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness are nothing to their goodness when they’re good. – Anonymous

·         You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man’s rib; she was really made from his funny bone. – Barbie “what every woman knows”

·         Suffer women once to arrive at equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors. – Cato the Censor

·         Women always have some mental reservation. – Destouches

·        There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one. – Euripides

·         Where is the man who has the power and skill to stem the torrent of a woman’s will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on it; and if she won’t, she won’t; so there’s an end on it. – Pikar Erected in Pene John Field Canterburry

·         The society of women is the foundation of good manners. – Goothe

·         Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.

·         Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. – Haliburton

·         Man has his will, but woman has her way. – Holmes Autocrat of the Break for Table

·         A woman of intelligence is admired. A woman of wealth is envied. A woman of power is feared. But only a woman of substance is loved. God bless!

·         It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty. – Victor Hugo

·         A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. – Kipling – Plain Tales

·         The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. – Kipling – Plain Tales

·         Those who always speak well of women do not know them sufficiently; those who always speak ill of them do not know them at all. – Guillaurme Pigoult Lebrun

·         There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. – La Bruyene

·         The great fault in women is to desire to be like men. – De Mairtu

·         Too fair to worship, to divine, to love. – Milman – Apollo Belvedre

·         Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love. – Milton – Paradise Lust

·         Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; oblige her, and she’ll hate you while you live. – Pope – Moral Essays

·         Men who flatter women do not know them; men who abuse them know them still less. – Mme. De Falm

·         Honor woman! They entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life. – Schiller

·         Frailty; thy name is woman! – 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 amalgam – it was a woman. – William Sharp

·         Women’s dearest delight is to wound man’s self conceit, though man’s dearest delight is to gratify hers. – George Bermud Shaw “Unsocial Socialist”

·         I am glad that I am not a man for then I should have to marry a woman. – Mme. De Stael