Anonymous

Prostitutes have very improperly been styled women of pleasure; they are women of pain, or sorrow, of grief, of bitter and continual repentance, without a hope of obtaining a pardon.

The intent of matrimony, is not for man and wife to be always taken up with each other, but jointly to discharge the duties of civil society, to govern their family with prudence, and educate their children with discretion.

True love never goes without respect; and its counterfeit is often obliged to feign it, till an occasion serves to throw it out of the windows.

Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers hang them. But journalists put theirs on the front page.

Before you advise anyone "Be yourself!" reassess his character.

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Never be intimidated when you deal with men. Curse, don't cry.

... self-determination and self-defense go hand in hand.

How can you be beautiful and be for Women's Lib?

I just can't conceive of a mentality that says, "I don't file."

I have eyes to see now what I have never seen before.

Coming to Rome, much labour and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you you will not find Him.

The human race is yet in its infancy—no, not infancy; infancy is innocent and sweet—it is in its ugly boyhood, half way between the child and the man—in a state of semi-barbarism.

Where liberty dwells there is my country.

No—is a term very frequently employed by the fair, when they mean everything else but a negative. Their yes is always yes; but their no is not always no.

Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

One of the few moments of happiness a man knows in Australia is that moment of meeting the eyes of another man over the tops of two beer glasses.

A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children.

On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

He looked as if he wished to rive new war material out of the wombs of the mothers.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

Fifty years from now, it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account, or what your clothes looked like, But the world may be a little better because you were important in the life of a child.

Teenagers are like people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike.

Men are universally afraid of a broomstick and a woman's tongue; if no other weapons are allowed us, let these be freely used.

It is as absurd to say that [due to motherhood] all women shall be denied the suffrage, as it would be to deny all men the suffrage, because some are liable, periodically, to inflammatory rheumatism, delirium tremens, or financial failure.

An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] Anthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the "white male" into a nice pickle.

Vanity—has brought more virtues to an untimely end than any other vice.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

The happiness of the body consists in the possession of health; that of the mind, in being sensible of that blessing.

Heaven is the place where the donkey at last catches up with the carrot.

In general, one may pronounce kissing dangerous. A spark of fire has often been struck out of the collision of lips, that has blown up the whole magazine of virtue.