Women and girls: voices and reflections

A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

A man’s face is his autobiography.  A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

Men build houses; women build homes.

Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater.

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Every woman beautiful till she speaks.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Modesty is the beauty of women.

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.

Men get wealth and women keep it.

A educated woman finds few suitors.

If you search for a faultless woman, you will remain a bachelor.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

A shy woman is worth a city, a shy man is worth a goat.

Instruct a man, you instruct an individual. Instruct a woman, you instruct a nation.

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Every woman needs two men — one to be married to and the other to compare.

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

Love enters man through his eyes, woman through her ears.

A woman told me that a woman told her.

For a chaste woman God is enough.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

A man will never heed the voice of a woman until it is too late.

The wind changes every day; a woman changes every second.

Necessity teaches the naked woman to spin.

A woman is like a bee treat her well and she will make honey, treat her badly and she will go wild.

The man that won’t marry a woman with other admirers won’t marry a woman at all.

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.

One woman understands another.

A woman’s polite devotion is her greatest beauty.

An excuse is nearer to a woman than her apron.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

A woman can beat the devil.

The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it.

A woman is a fortress, a man her prisoner.

A patient woman can roast an ox with a lantern.

No mirror ever reflected an ugly woman.

He who takes a woman gives away his freedom.

The man deliberates, the woman decides.

A woman gets thirty percent of her beauty from nature and seventy percent from makeup.

To tell a woman what she cannot do is to tell her what she can.

A woman’s tears are worth a lot, but cost little.

A beautiful woman smiling, bespeaks a purse weeping.

A woman that always laughs is everybody’s wife; a man that is always laughing is an idiot.

A woman who accepts, sells herself; a woman who gives, surrenders.

The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

A woman’s tongue is her sword, and she does not let it rust.

A beautiful woman belongs to everyone; an ugly one is yours alone.

The most highly praised woman is the one about whom no one speaks.

There are three uncertainties: woman, wind, and wealth.

Ugliness is the only guardian angel a woman has.

The unfaithful woman has remorse, the faithful one has regret.

No woman is ugly if she is well dressed.

When a man is crazy about a woman only she can cure him.

A man chases a woman until she catches him.

The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.

Man without woman, is head without body; woman without man, is body without head.

A woman’s honor consists in the good opinion the world has of her.

A woman prefers poverty with love to wealth without love.

If a woman doesn’t know what she has to answer then the sea is dry.

Where the devil can’t go himself, he sends an old woman.

Wait for a month before you praise a horse, and for a year before you praise a woman.

Silence is a woman’s best garment.

A woman conceals what she knows not.

A beautiful woman is like an axe in one’s life.

A woman is the last judgement of the man.

A beautiful ornament looks best on a beautiful woman.

A woman has the form of an angel, the heart of a serpent, and the mind of an ass.

Woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

A woman’s work is never done.

A woman without a man is like a garden without a fence.

No woman can make a wise man out of a fool, but every woman can change a wise man into a fool.

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.

A woman and a glass are always in danger.

If you want to take revenge on a man, send him a really beautiful woman.

An old woman is not old in a song she dances well.

The woman who loves her husband corrects his faults; the man that loves his wife exaggerates them.

One woman never praises another.

A jealous woman will set a whole house on fire.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband .

A woman who is not successful in her own marriage has no advice to give to her younger generations.

A bad woman is worse than a bad man.

With wealth one wins a woman.

The mouth of a woman takes no holiday.

A woman and a stove may not leave the house.

Beautiful woman, beautiful trouble.

A market can be spoilt by one woman.

When a woman prepares a dish which others find unpalatable, she says that she prepared it to suit her own taste.

A wise woman has much to say and yet remains silent.

There was never a conflict without a woman.

If a young woman says no to marriage just wait until her breasts sag.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

The woman makes the man.

A barren woman is like a leaking pot.

A truth-telling woman has few friends.

A woman builds and destroys a house.

A woman wears her tears like jewelry.

Women only keep quiet about their age.

Beauty is the wisdom of women . Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Women can keep only one secret — their own.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

Women’s quarrels cause the men’s wars.

Women prefer to be beautiful rather than good.

A woman’s first advice is her best.

Slander expires at a good woman’s door.

A woman who delivers a baby in the market square has nothing to hide.

A woman keeps secret only what she does not know.

A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery.

Money tempts women, women tempt men.

Silence is a wonderful jewel for a woman but she seldom wears it.

In men every mortal sin is venial, in women every venial sin is mortal.

All good women are in the graveyard.

A woman’s vengeance knows no bounds.

Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves.

The man loves with his head, the woman thinks with her heart.

Women never praise without gossiping.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

A silent woman is always more admired than a noisy one.

The fear of women is the basis of good health.

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.

build houses; women build homes.

that won’t marry a woman with other admirers won’t marry a woman at all.

. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.