Women Quotes

Some interesting quotes and sayings on women to both inspire and provoke careful thinking for girls, women, boys and men alike. Enjoy!

A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. ~Max Lucado

A man’s face is his autobiography.  A woman’s face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde

Men build houses; women build homes. ~American proverb

Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she’ll give you a baby.. If you give her a house, she’ll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she’ll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she’ll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit! ~Anonymous

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~Samuel Johnson

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. ~Robert Graves

Every woman beautiful till she speaks. ~Zimbabwean proverb

When women go wrong, men go right after them. ~Mae West

Modesty is the beauty of women. ~Scottish proverb

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman. ~American proverb

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~Oscar Wilde

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after. ~Polish proverb

Men get wealth and women keep it. ~British proverb

A educated woman finds few suitors. ~Austrian proverb

If you search for a faultless woman, you will remain a bachelor. ~Turkish proverb

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ~Elsa Schiaparelli

A shy woman is worth a city, a shy man is worth a goat. ~Kurdish proverb

Instruct a man, you instruct an individual. Instruct a woman, you instruct a nation. ~Moroccan proverb

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown

Every woman needs two men — one to be married to and the other to compare. ~French proverb

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Love enters man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~American proverb

A woman told me that a woman told her. ~Irish proverb

For a chaste woman God is enough. ~Spanish proverb

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

A man will never heed the voice of a woman until it is too late. ~African proverb

The wind changes every day; a woman changes every second. ~Spanish proverb

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ~Ovid

Necessity teaches the naked woman to spin. ~Danish proverb

A woman is like a bee treat her well and she will make honey, treat her badly and she will go wild. ~African proverb

The man that won’t marry a woman with other admirers won’t marry a woman at all. ~Nigerian proverb

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. ~Chinese proverb

One woman understands another. ~Irish proverb

A woman’s polite devotion is her greatest beauty. ~African proverb

An excuse is nearer to a woman than her apron. ~Irish proverb

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese proverb

A woman can beat the devil. ~Irish proverb

The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it. ~African proverb

A woman is a fortress, a man her prisoner. ~Kurdish proverb

A patient woman can roast an ox with a lantern. ~Chinese proverb

No mirror ever reflected an ugly woman. ~Spanish proverb

He who takes a woman gives away his freedom. ~Italian proverb

The man deliberates, the woman decides. ~Spanish proverb

A woman gets thirty percent of her beauty from nature and seventy percent from makeup. ~Chinese proverb

To tell a woman what she cannot do is to tell her what she can. ~Spanish proverb

A woman’s tears are worth a lot, but cost little. ~Spanish proverb

A beautiful woman smiling, bespeaks a purse weeping. ~Italian proverb

A woman that always laughs is everybody’s wife; a man that is always laughing is an idiot. ~Chinese proverb

A woman who accepts, sells herself; a woman who gives, surrenders. ~French proverb

The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house. ~Spanish proverb

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese proverb

A woman’s tongue is her sword, and she does not let it rust. ~French proverb

A beautiful woman belongs to everyone; an ugly one is yours alone. ~Indian proverb

The most highly praised woman is the one about whom no one speaks. ~Chinese proverb

There are three uncertainties: woman, wind, and wealth. ~Indian proverb

Ugliness is the only guardian angel a woman has. ~Yiddish proverb

The unfaithful woman has remorse, the faithful one has regret. ~Chinese proverb

No woman is ugly if she is well dressed. ~Portuguese proverb

When a man is crazy about a woman only she can cure him. ~Chinese proverb

A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American proverb

The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman. ~Mexican proverb

Man without woman, is head without body; woman without man, is body without head. ~German proverb

A woman’s honor consists in the good opinion the world has of her. ~Cuban proverb

A woman prefers poverty with love to wealth without love. ~Hebrew proverb

If a woman doesn’t know what she has to answer then the sea is dry. ~Czech proverb

Where the devil can’t go himself, he sends an old woman. ~German proverb

Wait for a month before you praise a horse, and for a year before you praise a woman. ~Czech proverb

Silence is a woman’s best garment. ~Hebrew proverb

A woman conceals what she knows not. ~Scottish proverb

A beautiful woman is like an axe in one’s life. ~Japanese proverb

A woman is the last judgement of the man. ~Swedish proverb

A beautiful ornament looks best on a beautiful woman. ~Hebrew proverb

A woman has the form of an angel, the heart of a serpent, and the mind of an ass. ~German proverb

Woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. ~Argentinean proverb

A woman’s work is never done. ~English proverb

A woman without a man is like a garden without a fence. ~German proverb

No woman can make a wise man out of a fool, but every woman can change a wise man into a fool. ~Argentinean proverb

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks. ~English proverb

A woman and a glass are always in danger. ~German proverb

If you want to take revenge on a man, send him a really beautiful woman. ~Arab proverb

An old woman is not old in a song she dances well. ~Nigerian proverb

The woman who loves her husband corrects his faults; the man that loves his wife exaggerates them. ~Armenian proverb

One woman never praises another. ~Estonian proverb

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. ~Alexandre Dumas

A jealous woman will set a whole house on fire. ~Latin proverb

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband. ~English proverb

A woman who is not successful in her own marriage has no advice to give to her younger generations. ~Nigerian proverb

A bad woman is worse than a bad man. ~Romanian proverb

With wealth one wins a woman. ~Ugandan proverb

When a woman comes to her glass, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.  Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress. ~Joseph Addison

The mouth of a woman takes no holiday. ~Creole proverb

A woman and a stove may not leave the house. ~German proverb

Beautiful woman, beautiful trouble. ~Jamaican proverb

A market can be spoilt by one woman. ~Kikuyu proverb

When a woman prepares a dish which others find unpalatable, she says that she prepared it to suit her own taste. ~Nigerian proverb

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. ~Mignon McLaughlin

A wise woman has much to say and yet remains silent. ~Moroccan proverb

There was never a conflict without a woman. ~English proverb

If a young woman says no to marriage just wait until her breasts sag. ~Burundian proverb

A woman should soften but not weaken a man. ~Sigmund Freud

The woman makes the man. ~Corsican proverb

A barren woman is like a leaking pot. ~African proverb

A truth-telling woman has few friends. ~Danish proverb

A woman builds and destroys a house. ~Corsican proverb

A woman wears her tears like jewelry. ~Author Unknown

Women only keep quiet about their age. ~German proverb

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men. ~Chinese proverb

Women can keep only one secret — their own. ~Yiddish proverb

No woman wants to see herself too clearly. ~Mignon McLaughlin,

Women’s quarrels cause the men’s wars. ~Japanese proverb

Women prefer to be beautiful rather than good. ~German proverb

A woman’s first advice is her best. ~German proverb

Slander expires at a good woman’s door. ~Danish proverb

A woman who delivers a baby in the market square has nothing to hide. ~African proverb

A woman keeps secret only what she does not know. ~German proverb

A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery. ~Diana Stürm

Money tempts women, women tempt men. ~Bulgarian proverb

Silence is a wonderful jewel for a woman but she seldom wears it. ~Danish proverb

In men every mortal sin is venial, in women every venial sin is mortal. ~Italian proverb

All good women are in the graveyard. ~French proverb

A woman’s vengeance knows no bounds. ~German proverb

Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed

Women speak two languages – one of which is verbal. ~William Shakespeare

The man loves with his head, the woman thinks with her heart. ~Danish proverb

Women never praise without gossiping. ~Chinese proverb

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ~Compton Mackenzie

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin

A silent woman is always more admired than a noisy one. ~Latin proverb

The fear of women is the basis of good health. ~Spanish proverb

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~Author Unknown

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. ~Marcel Achard

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