Every year on 8 March is International Women’s Day. Enjoy these proverbs and quotes about women.
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One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
Onions, smoke, and women bring tears to your eyes.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph JoubertOnly one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.
Groucho MarxPeople think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
Kelly BrookSix hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
Some women are not beautiful – they only look as though they are.
Karl KrausThe beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
Audrey HepburnThe dog for the man, the cat for the woman.
The fangs of the green snake and the sting of a wasp don't really make poison; that is only to be found in a woman's heart.
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThe silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard KiplingThe three most difficult to understand; the mind of a woman, the labor of the bees and the ebb and flow of the tide.
(unknown author)There is no question that a Neanderthal could easily beat us up. So, too, presumably could their women, which may be why we are only 2 percent Neanderthal instead of 50 percent. Those bitches were too scary for us.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island
There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won’t bring her to the window.
There was never a conflict without a woman.
There’s just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.
Kathleen HannaTo Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
Bette DavisWhen a woman talks to you, smile but do not listen.
When you say No to a woman, sir, always say it in one word. If you give her your reasons, she invariably believes that you mean Yes.
Wilkie CollinsSource: Armadale
Where there is woman, there is magic.
Ntozake ShangeWhile physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen HawkingWoman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheWomen are like wasps in their anger.
Women are never kind ... though they can sometimes be tender.
Agatha ChristieSource: After the Funeral
Quoted: Hercule Poirot
Women sometimes make fools of men, but most guys are the do-it-yourself type
(unknown author)Women spend more time wondering what men are thinking than men spend thinking.
(unknown author)Women. They are a complete mystery.
Stephen HawkingIn reply to the question: What do you think most about during the day?
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Brigham YoungYou know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
Steve Martin