Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are endangered. Jean Paul.
Women are as roses, whose fair flower / Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. Twelfth Night, ii. 4.
Women are born worshippers. Carlyle. 15
Women are confined within the narrow limits of domestic assiduity, and when they stray beyond them they move beyond their sphere, and consequently without grace. Goldsmith.
Women are ever in extremes; they are either better or worse than men. La Bruyère.
Women are like limpets, they need something to hold on by. Sigma.
Women are the poetry of the world, in the same sense as the stars are the poetry of heaven. Clear, light-giving, harmonious, they are the terrestrial planets that rule the destinies of mankind. Hargrave.
Women bestow on friendship only what they 20 borrow from love. Chamfort.
Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see quicker. Buckle.
Women exceed the generality of men in love. La Bruyère.