WOMANKIND AS SEEN BY GREAT AUTHORS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3512, 1 May 1912, Page 7

WOMANKIND AS SEEN BY GREAT AUTHORS.

EPIGRAMS PRAISING OR POKING FUNMarriage communications to women the vices of men, but never thier vir-tues.-—Francois Charles Marie Fourier. ■ . Woman's oause is man’s; they rise or sink together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.—Alfred Tennyson. A woman by -whom wo are loved is ,a- vanity; a woman whom we love- is a religion.—Emilo de- Giradin. Virtue with some women is -but tlie precaution, of locking doors. —-Pierre Edouard 16 Mo-nteyV In love, the confident of a woman’s sorrow, much' bitterness flows from her tongue.—Euripides. Women are in tlie moral world what flowers arc in the physical.- —Pierre Sylvain Mareclial. Love, .that is but an episode in the life of man, is the entire story of the life of woman- Mme. de Stael. A woman needs a- stronger head than her own for counsel; she should marry.—Pedro Calderon de la Barca. My wife is dead .... God help those who remain. --• I must think or finding another wife.—Francois Rabelais. AYoman has led the world since it began. She took the leading part in tlie first drama, “Mail and the Serpent.”—Paul Blouct. Your true flirt- has a coarse-grained sou! ; well modulated and well tutored, but there is no fineness in it.—Donald G. Mitchell. Wives are such a. provoking class of society, for, though they are never right, they are never more than half

wron g. —TI I oma sH a rdy. No woman is so bad but we may rejoice when' her heart thrills to love, for then God lias her by tlie hand. - J. 31. Barrie. There are ladies who may be called men’s women, being welcomed entirely by all the gentlemen, and cut or slighted by all their wives. 33 T illiam Ma kepeae e Th acker ay • In nine cases out of ton the first to corrupt the youth is the woman. In nine cases out of ten also ho becomes corrupt because she likes it.— Ouida. Weak as women -are in the long run of everything but the affections (and there they arc giants), they are all overpowering while their gallop lasts. —Charles Rcade. Flattery is their nature —-to coax, flatter -and sweetly befool seme one is every woman’s business. She is none if she declines this office.—Villi am Makepeace Thackeray. A woman with a sweet and gracious voice can exert through it, in the ordinary relations of life, without even knowing it, a better influence than she could by disturbing religious tracts. —Hiram Corson. Nothing displeases women more than an austere and self-contained character. They see that they have no hold upon it; its dignity awes them, its pride rebels, its pre-occupa-tions keep them aloof—Hippilyte A. Taine. He who trusts women ploughs the wind, sows on tlie barren sea, finds not the bottom of the- hidden ocean, writes his recollections in the snow, draws water, like the Danaidcs, uitli pitchers full of holes. —Paul Flemming. The female heart, as far as my experience goes, is just- like a new indiarubber shoe. You may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fiy right back to its old shape.— Judge Hallburton.