Three Wise Women

Women hold up half the sky. - Mao Zedong

Woman was God's second mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Women should be obscene and not heard. - Groucho Marx

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. - John Gray

Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Colette

I like my whiskey old and my women young. - Errol Flynn

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

For even the very wise cannot see all ends. - JRR Tolkien

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

Success: the ability to make wise decisions. - Hebrew Saying

He who looketh upon a woman loseth a fender. - Auto repair shop

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! - Homer

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself. - Mary Roach

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. - Irina Dunn

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up. - Kyle Farnsworth

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. - Rosalind Russell

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. - Joseph Joubert

A woman who strives to be like a man lacks ambition. - Unknown

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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. - Marcel Achard

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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. - H L Mencken

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

A woman is attractive when she is somebody else's wife. - African Proverb

Mouse: An animal which strews its path with fainting women. - Ambrose Bierce

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. - Ambrose Bierce

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. - Lao-Tzu

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

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - JRR Tolkien

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. - George Best

He who has two women loses his soul. But he who has two homes loses his mind. - Ancient Proverb

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. - Erma Bombeck

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. - Oscar Wilde

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. - Albert Einstein

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. - Oscar Wilde

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. - Evan Esar

It is wise to apply the refined oil of politeness to the mechanism of friendship. - Colette

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German. - Emperor Charles V

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control. - Pythagoras

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Edward Humphrey

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. - Bill Cosby

The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden, and it ends with Revelations. - Oscar Wilde

Wisdom is the ability to acquire knowledge and analyze it both logically and emotionally. - Vivian Clayton

You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar. - Groucho Marx

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit. - Oscar Wilde

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. - Ambrose Bierce

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. - Diogenes of Sinope

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pick-up truck, and end up with a station wagon. - Tim Allen

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less. - P.D. James

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. - Unknown

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. - Anna Dostoevsky

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - Moliere

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. - Samuel Johnson

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open. - George Bernard Shaw

Now I lay facedown on the bed, sobbing for the woman who once slept here not knowing that someday one of her worst fears would come true. - Jennifer Castle

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff - if it sneer, let it sneer. - Lucy Stone

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything. - America Ferrera