"Women always excel men in that sort..." - Quote by H L Mencken
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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“[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.”
“It is only doubt that creates.”
“The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly veryfriendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.”
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“Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.”
“A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
“Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.”
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“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
“Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.”