Famous Quotes

"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."

Samuel Richardson on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

• "The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal."

• "If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it."

• "Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."

• "Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

• "As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."