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Quotations
 | If we are to use women for the same things as the men, we must also teach them the same things. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 75 likes |
 | Women are nothing but machines for producing children. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 23 likes |
 | Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 18 likes |
 | Women have twice more hunger, four times more shame, six times more courage and eight times more erotic passion than men. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 17 likes |
 | If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 15 likes |
 | Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 14 likes |
 | The life of a woman is an endless search for a master. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 12 likes |
 | Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 11 likes |
 | I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women. — Louis XIV of France, 1638-1715, King of France (le Roi Soleil) 11 likes |
| Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 9 likes |
 | It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 8 likes |
 | To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me she is just the opposite. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 8 likes |
 | Woman was God’s second mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 8 likes |
 | When a woman speaks, it is to say nothing, so when she does not say anything, she is talking. — Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921, French playwright 7 likes |
| Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes |
 | When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 7 likes |
 | One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 7 likes |
 | The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?” — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 7 likes |
 | Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling. — Louisa May Alcott, 1923-1888, American writer 7 likes |
 | One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 6 likes |
 | Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 5 likes |
 | To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. — Golda Meir, 1898-1978, Israeli Prime Minister 5 likes |
| The hell of women is old age. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 5 likes |
 | No Woman, No Cry — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 5 likes |
 | The strength of women is not in what they say but in the number of times they say it. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 5 likes |
 | There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes |
 | No is no negative in a woman's mouth. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 4 likes |
 | What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 4 likes |
 | There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. — Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1990, British writer 4 likes |
 | We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood, 1939 -, Canadian writer 4 likes |
 | Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. — Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, French fashion designer 4 likes |
 | There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 4 likes |
 | Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. — Edmund Burke, 1729-1797, British statesman & philosopher 4 likes |
| Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice. — Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 3 likes |
 | Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 3 likes |
 | Nothing is more unfathomable than a woman's superficiality. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure. — Saadi Shirazi, 1210-1292, Persian poet 3 likes |
 | I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 3 likes |
 | We are becoming the men we wanted to marry. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 3 likes |
| A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 3 likes |
 | Woman is a temple built over a sewer. — Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author 2 likes |
 | There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. — Alphonse de Lamartin, 1790-1869, French poet 2 likes |
 | Women hold up half the sky. — Mao Zedong, 1893-1976, Chinese leader 2 likes |
 | A woman is like a rose: the petals fall in a week, but the thorns remain. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 2 likes |
 | Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes |
 | Cinema is an art where you do nice things to beautiful women. — François Truffaut, 1932-1984, French film director 1 likes |
| When a woman is silent, listen carefully. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 1 likes |
 | A woman shows her ass faster than her heart. |
| Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, and scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is favored in heaven and advantageous on earth. |
| That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan. |
 | The four cornerstones of this world: bread, wine, fire, woman. |
 | Women read each other at a single glance. |
| The woman gives herself only to her first love; to all the others, she takes it back! |
 | An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies: all the stupid men. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
 | I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. |
| Kings and women believe that everything that happens is due to them. |
| The woman is a lyre who only reveals her secrets to those who know how to play. |
| Woman is closer to angels than man, because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion. |
| When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues. |
 | An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all. |
 | Four things greater than all things are, —Women and Horses and Power and War. |
| I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. |
 | There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. |
 | A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows. |
| The greatest power in the world is the youth and beauty of women. |
| If women love diamonds, maybe it's because they look like tears. |
 | Woman’s ideal: to be served in the little things, and to serve in the big ones. |
| All women stubbornly revolve around what should burn them. |
 | Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. |
| Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all. |
| As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped. |
| Women in America read “lifestyle” pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador. |
| Someday every woman will have orgasms – like every family has color TV – and we can all get on with the business of life. |
| Women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness. |
 | If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. |
 | The most ridiculous thing for a woman is to be a man. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life. |
 | Women are never so strong as after a defeat. |
| Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. |
 | The silliest woman is a hundred times more cunning than the wittiest man. |
| There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart. |
 | You should never give orders to a woman unless you are sure beforehand that you will be obeyed. |
 | There’s something every woman wants, and that’s a man to blame. |
 | Women never intervene in my novels simply because they would talk all the time and the others would have nothing more to say. |
 | A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. |
 | To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it. |
 | I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it. |
 | Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. |
 | Dress is to the woman the prologue and, sometimes, even the whole book. |
 | It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are. |
| No two women are the same. Each one has something unique and irreplaceable. |
 | A woman's only ambition is to inspire love. |
Latin Quotes
 | The Woman is a sweet poison. Dulce puella malum est. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 51 likes |
 | Woman is ever a fickle and changeable thing. Varium et mutabile semper Femina. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 34 likes |
| A woman leads the events. Dux femina facti. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet (referring to queen Dido, founder of Carthage) 25 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Heav'n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve, 1670-1729, English writer 3 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | A world without women? Certainly is a pain on each guys ass! — Anonymous 6 likes |
 | Women are like cigars: the first few puffs are the best. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 3 likes |
| Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend. |
Ancient Greek
 | When the lamp goes off, all the women are the same. Λυχνίας σβεσθείσης, πάσα γυνή ομοία. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 11 likes |
 | Sea, fire and, the third evil, woman. Θάλασσα και πυρ, και γυνή τρίτον κακόν. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 11 likes |
 | The real ornament of woman is her character, not jewelry. Γυναικί κόσμος οι τρόποι, ουχί χρυσία. 11 likes |
 | Nothing is worse than a truly bad woman, and nothing better than a truly good one. Της μεν κακής κάκιον ουδέν γίγνεται γυναικός, εσθλής δ’ ουδέν εις υπερβολήν πέφυκ’ άμεινον. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Melanippe 9 likes |
| A woman should be good for everything at home, but, out of the door, good for nothing. Ένδον μένουσαν την γυναίκα είναι χρεών εσθλήν, θύρασι δ’ αξίαν του μηδενός. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Meleager 8 likes |
 | Women are more envious and more querulous than men. Γυνή ανδρός φθονερώτερον και μεμψιμοιρότερον. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived. Because they are used to deceive. Χρήματα πορίζειν ευπορώτατον γυνή, άρχουσά τ’ ουκ αν εξαπατηθείη ποτέ. Αυταί γαρ εισιν εξαπατάν ειθισμέναι. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Ecclesiazusae 7 likes |
| Except for the one that gave birth to me, I hate the entire genus of women Πλην της τεκούσης, θήλυ παν μισώ γένος. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Melanippe 7 likes |
 | We can never trust women again. Επεὶ ουκέτι πιστά γυναιξίν. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Odyssey XI 6 likes |
| All evil is done because of women. Διά τας γυναίκας πάντα τα κακά γίγνεται. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 6 likes |
| Women know nothing excpet from what they want. Γυνή γαρ ουδέν οίδε πλην ό βούλεται. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 5 likes |
| The female has the will but not the strength. Το θήλυ έχει το βουλητικόν αλλ' άκυρον. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
| There is no beast like woman so untamed. Ουδέν εστι θηρίον γυναικός αμαχώτερον. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Lysistrata 4 likes |
| A woman is a woman’s natural ally. Γυνή γυναικί σύμμαχος πέφυκε πως. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Alope 4 likes |
 | Fire, woman and sea, the mighty three. Πυρ, γυνή και θάλασσα, δυνατά τρία. — Aesop, 620-560 BC, Ancient Greek fabulist 3 likes |
| Of all the things the hardest to deal with is the woman. Πάντων δυσμαχώτατον γυνή. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Oedipus 3 likes |
| You will find many machinations since you are a woman. Πολλάς αν εύροις μηχανάς, γυνή γαρ εί. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Andromache 3 likes |
 | Surely it is not for a woman to long for battle. Ούτοι γυναικός εστιν ιμείρειν μάχης. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Agamemnon 2 likes |
| Trust not a woman, not even in death. Γυναικί μη πίστευε, μηδ’ αν αποθάνη. |
Proverbs
 | Look for the woman [to find the cause] Cherchez la femme. 3 likes |
 | A woman's work is never done. 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | -How do you write women so well? - I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability. — from the film As Good As it Gets (1997) 4 likes |
