Top 100 Quotes About Wise Woman
#1. A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim
#2. [F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.
Sarah Fielding
#3. A story is like a nut. A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, think it of little worth. But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meant inside.
Patrick Rothfuss
#4. A story is like a nut," Vashet said. "A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, thinking it of little worth." She smiled. "But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meat inside.
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. A wise woman knows the importance of speaking life into her man. If you love him; believe in him, encourage him and be his peace.
Denzel Washington
#6. Let us enter! For it is only in the coming of Aragorn that any hope remains for the sick that lie in the House. Thus spake Ioreth, wise-woman of Gondor: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#7. Every romantic woman dreams of Willoughby. However, every wise woman's heart knows Colonel Brandon would take care of her when she was sick, love her when she was well and know her worth every day that she breathes.
Shannon L. Alder
#8. Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
Robert Jordan
#10. Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.
Joyce Brothers
#11. A wise woman has already a rite
Where she knows right from left.
She usually writes when she's right
And always leaves before she's left.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#12. A wise woman invests her time and doesn't squander it in gossip, judgment or idleness. She knows every moment gone is one that she will not get back.
Toni Sorenson
#13. He told her, You are a wise woman.
Pleasure warmed her voice. I do have my moments, don't I?
Thea Harrison
#14. When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.
Stormie O'martian
#15. A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
Maya Angelou
#17. I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.
Iyanla Vanzant
#18. Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#19. LAURA ATCHISON, Author of "What Would A Wise Woman Do?", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:
"Truth is always wilder than fiction.
Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison
#20. A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.
Shannon L. Alder
#21. Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning
look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison, Author of What Would A Wise Woman Do?
Laura Atchison
#22. A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Stendhal
#23. A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
Suze Orman
#24. A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.
Shannon L. Alder
#26. The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#27. The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.
W. Somerset Maugham
#28. Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only
Robert Jordan
#29. A wise woman indiscriminately picked up all the tools others left lying around.
Karen Marie Moning
#30. This was dangerous talk - in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of an ugly wife and yet more women of an attractive rival.
Joss Alexander
#31. A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman
#32. It takes a wise man to learn wisdom from a wise woman!
Marcie Telander
#33. A foolish woman believes that loyalty is automatic. A wise woman knows that it is earned.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. The wise woman thinks twice and speaks once or, better yet, does not speak at all.
Maya Angelou
#35. A wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland
#36. You can threaten a village wise woman with death and torture and she may say "jesus is lord" to survive, but you can never know what's really in her heart ... that, I feel, is how the goddess survived centuries of history and hatred.
Dianne Sylvan
#37. A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
Robert Bloch
#38. Just because a woman's got no teeth doesn't mean she's wise. It might just mean she's been stupid for a very long time.
Terry Pratchett
#39. She blinked at him, mouth open. "Do you really think it's wise to insult a woman who's holdin' a needle this far away? - she held her fingers an inch apart - "From your Grand Master of Ceremonies?
Julie Ann Walker
#40. No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H.L. Mencken
#41. It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next three hours, a wise and beautiful woman would float out of the wreckage of my life, and her words and thoughts and tiniest movements were precious.
Jennifer Egan
#42. A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.
Rumi
#44. Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.
Mary Abigail Dodge
#45. For some she came in a dream. For others in words as clear as a bell: it is time, I am here. She may come in a whisper so loud she can deafen you or a shout so quiet you strain to hear. She may appear in the waves or the face of the moon, in a red goddess or a crow.
Lucy H. Pearce
#46. I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Sonia Sotomayor
#47. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Karl Lagerfeld
#48. No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.
Carol Ryrie Brink
#49. A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
Robert Jordan
#50. Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
Franz Grillparzer
#51. To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope and wait for it, and wise to prepare for it; so that when the happy time comes, you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of the joy.
Louisa May Alcott
#52. A woman did not feel jealousy if her emotions were not engaged. And a wise man did not let it fester.
C.L. Wilson
#53. You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.
Dylan Brody
#54. At her first bleeding a woman meets her power.
During her bleeding years she practices it.
At menopause she becomes it.
Traditional Native American saying
Lucy H. Pearce
#55. Yes, the woman." Cunco took a deep breath. "Women like her don't come along that often, you know. Maybe only every two hundred years. She everything a man could dream of. Beautiful, clever, wise, considerate, passionate--absolutely everything.
Nina George
#56. Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.
Rosario Ferre
#57. There is something incredibly beautiful about a woman, who knows herself, she can't break, she just falls but in every fall she rises, past who she was before.
Nikki Rowe
#58. He leaned his head in his hands, as if the burden he bore were too great for endurance. 'You are wise', he said, then raised his head and stared at her with unflinching hatred. 'I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you!
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#59. I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.
Criss Jami
#60. Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
Robert Southey
#61. Those who are weak in spirit, desire to make others weaker.
While the strong spirit, desire to empower others to be stronger.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#62. There are men who prefer to keep trouble from a woman, but it seems to me that is neither reasonable nor wise. I've always respected the thinking of women, and also their ability to face up to trouble when it comes, and it shouldn't be allowed to come on them unexpected.
Louis L'Amour
#63. She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
Pearl S. Buck
#64. In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall.
Erich Fromm
#65. A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.
Edward Young
#66. Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.
John Lasseter
#68. I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#69. The Emperor of China once sent a messenger to the wise man Lao-tsu to ask how he should rule the kingdom. Lao-tsu replied that he should rule the kingdom in the way you would cook a small fish. How do you cook a small fish? In the steady, cautious, caring way you undress a woman.
Chloe Thurlow
#70. Phillip hardened his grip on Totka's. "For all our manipulations, God always manages to get His way."
"A beautiful woman once told me our Jesus Creator is a good and wise chief, worthy of obedience without question. His plan is perfect. Wait, and you will see.
April W. Gardner
#71. It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.
Minna Antrim
#72. You have only one life, don't waste your life, fulfilling others dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. An old woman with a mutch sat in an arm-chair behind the counter. She looked up at me over her spectacles and smiled, and I took to her on the instant. She had the kind of old wise face that God loves.
John Buchan
#74. Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation.
Abhijit Naskar
#75. Man is the head of the family, just as Christ is the Head of the Church.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#77. Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies
#78. Come on," I say. "Dance with me now." "I didn't realize you danced." "I don't," I say. "But someone wise once told me that for the right woman, you've gotta be willing to do anything.
J.M. Darhower
#79. Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.
Michael Baisden
#80. My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
John Sergeant Wise
#81. I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.
Gregory David Roberts
#82. Chess teaches that actions have consequences and the wise man - or woman - will always look to the endgame ...
Tiffany Reisz
#83. Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent.
Greg Wise
#84. Woman means the bone of a man. In the Ga language "Wo" means bone.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
Martin Luther
#86. The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the man.
Richard Francis Burton
#87. The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous.
Christina Dodd
#88. I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this.
Justina Machado
#89. What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman's heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. Not so wide that a woman would feel as if she might fall in, and not so small it looked as if he'd just sucked a lemon like Ronald Trump's, or whatever his name was. All in all, Richard's lips looked just right.
Linda Howard
#92. They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down ...
Terry Pratchett
#93. The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.
Hannah Woolley
#94. things keep falling in and out of place.
this is the universe's way of taking care of me.
AVA.
#95. We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
#96. You know who you are, he said-
that intimidates boys but oneday a man will come along and value that exact part in you.
- Wise words from my best friend.
Nikki Rowe
#97. On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.
Robert Greene
#98. In order to reclaim our full selves, to integrate each of these aspects through which we pass over the course of our lives, we must first learn to embrace them though our cycles.
Lucy H. Pearce
#99. He was sprightly and uncommonly good looking, with a quiet, magnanimous confidence that attracted people. He was my hero, too, and I listened to him. He gave me lots of wise advice. He told me to put myself in win-win situations, and that, "You have to know what you want, and you have to get it,
Aspen Matis
#100. Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
Herman Melville
