"Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
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“It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.”
“O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!”
“We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.”
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“I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.”
“I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.”
“Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.”
More on Wisdom
“The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.”
“A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”
“I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics”