Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Thurber

A woman's place is in the wrong.

James Thurber

Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.

James M. Barrie

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

James M. Barrie

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

James Laver

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

Joan Rivers

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

Garry Kasparov

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

Garry Kasparov

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

Edward T. Hall

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

Edward Carpenter

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

Edward Albee

The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.

Edith Evans

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Edie Falco

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

Kara Hayward

One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.

Joseph Addison

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.

Jose Saramago

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

Jose Saramago

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Khaled Hosseini

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Kerry Washington

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

Kerry Washington

I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.

Jonathan Swift

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

Ludwig Borne

Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.

Lucy Stone

Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

Louis de Bernieres

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Lord Chesterfield

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

Lord Chesterfield

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

Lord Chesterfield

No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

Malcolm de Chazal

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

Malala Yousafzai

I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one.

Mahatma Gandhi

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.