Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old women quotes, women sayings, and women proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women’s.Diane de Poitiers
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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.Oscar Wilde
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There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail. Mark Twain
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The graveyards are full of women whose houses were so spotless you could eat off the floor. Remember, the second wife always has a maid.Heloise Cruise
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! / The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!Aristophanes
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Like untuned golden strings all women are, / Which long time lie untouched, will harshly jar. / Vessels of brass oft handled brightly shine.Christopher Marlowe
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And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.Genesis 2:21-22
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The lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: / But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Proverbs 5:3-4
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Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. / The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her.Ecclesiastes 31: 10-11
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.Herodotus
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There's nothing worse in the world than a shameless woman — save some other woman.Aristophanes
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Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?William Shakespeare
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Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.William Shakespeare
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.William Shakespeare
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Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.William Shakespeare
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Shall I wasting in despair / Die because a woman's fair? / Or make pale my cheeks with care / 'Cause another's rosy are? / Be she fairer than the day, / Or the flow'ry meads in May, / If she be not so to me, / What care I how fair she be?George Wither
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A woman always has her revenge ready.Moliere
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am a woman and my business is lo hold things together.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.Jane Austen
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Women — one half the human race at least — care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.Walter Bagehot
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Women have no wilderness in them, / They are provident instead, / Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts / To eat dusty bread.Louise Bogan
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Auld nature swears, the lovely dears / Her noblest work she classes, O; / Her prentice han' she tried on man, / An’ then she made the lasses, O.Robert Burns
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The prime truth of woman, the universal mother . . . that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.G.K. Chesterton
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One is not born a woman: one becomes one.Simone De Beauvoir
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Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old. Shelagh Delaney
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She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, / Can draw you to her with a single hair.John Dryden
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The great question that has never been answered and which I have no yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’Sigmund Freud
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Eternal Woman draws us upward.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male.Rudyard Kipling
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is merely a good excuse not to play football.Fran Lebowitz