Famous Quotes

"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do."

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."