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women sophie world
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree. Carl Friedrich Gauss
women soul secret
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. Agnes Repplier
women secret-love doe
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. Charlotte Bronte
women moral walks
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing. Charles Dudley Warner
women imagination sentimental
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. Charles Caleb Colton
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
precious-stones light genius
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. Arthur Schopenhauer
precious-stones elements time-management
Time is the most precious element of human existence. Denis Waitley
precious-stones july envy
Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had. Paul Engle
precious-stones gold genius
Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity. Mark Twain
precious-stones comedian gold
Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. Groucho Marx
precious-stones breakfast mixtures
It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar. Judith Martin
precious-stones perfect focus
No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace. Richard Simmons
precious-stones may vices
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone. William Gilmore Simms
world paint
I paint with my back to the world Agnes Martin
world jokes
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
world thorough enjoyable
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
world want kind
In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all Aaron Tveit
world demand maids
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.
world faces looks
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
world importance significance
You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world. Charlie Haden
world trade
I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do. Charlie Daniels
world trouble despise
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves. Charlie Chaplin