Three Wise Women

He was a wise man who invented God. - Plato

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. - Benjamin Disraeli

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was with book, as a woman is with child. - C S Lewis

Hell hath no fury like a woman's corns. - Archie Bunker

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise. - Sallust

Age to women is like Kryptonite to Superman. - Kathy Lette

The wise learns many things from their enemies. - Aristophanes

Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. - Daphne du Maurier

America is a land where men govern, but women rule. - John M Brown

Women would not be prostitutes if it were not for men. - Baroness Vickers

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Women like silent men, they think they're listening. - George Carlin

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. - H L Mencken

We're women. We have a double standard to live up to. - Ally McBeal

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. - Aeschylus

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late. - Portuguese Proverb

Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract. - Kathy Lette

There's a lot involved in going to the bathroom for women. - Leah Remini

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb

The only place men want depth in a woman is in her decolletage. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Amazing women don't have hot flashes. We have power surges. - Unknown

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. - Doris Lessing

She's loaded with this, waddya call, women's intermission. - Archie Bunker

Wisdom is becoming competent with regard to the realities of life. - Gerhard von Rad

Most women are afraid of clowns, but somehow end up still dating one. - Unknown

Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other. - W Somerset Maugham

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. - Oscar Wilde

Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. - Psalms 90:12

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin

No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. - Anais Nin

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often. - Oliver Herford

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong. - Mae West

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. - Nancy Astor

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H L Mencken

When I passed 40 I dropped pretence, 'cause men like women who got some sense. - Maya Angelou

It is the province of knowledge to speak. It is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Christine Lane

Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one. - WC Fields

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald, but if he has fire, women will like him. - Mae West

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. - The Bible

Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongue. - Old Testament

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. - Cher

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold. - Marlo Thomas

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be made at me for saying that. - Mitch Hedberg

Looking at how successful all the Kardashian women are, I don't blame Bruce Jenner at all. - Trevor Noah

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. - Seneca

One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron. - Marilyn Vos Savant

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. - Marilyn Monroe

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. - Rod Stewart

Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you get between the right man and the right woman. - Woody Allen

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - Godfrey Winn

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A wise man will never tell his wife to keep quiet. He will tell her she looks beautiful with her mouth closed. - Unknown

Never try to impress a woman because if you do, you'll have to keep up that standard the rest of your life. - WC Fields

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. - Oscar Wilde

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. - Lana Turner

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid. - Confucius

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom. - Jerry Seinfeld

There's something about a woman with a loud mind that sits in silence, smiling, knowing she can crush you with the truth. - R G Moon

He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a man who plows in his field but does not sow. - Saadi

Can't figure women. Sometimes they're afraid of a spider, other times they're not afraid to stand right up to the devil. - Donal Harding

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. - Maya Angelou