Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Women Quotes

Round numbers are always false

Round numbers are always false

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to...

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to...

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope...

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope...

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

Nature is a hanging judge

Nature is a hanging judge

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool...

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool...

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest...

It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest...

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and...

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and...

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Money confounds subordination.

Money confounds subordination.

Language is the dress of thought.

Language is the dress of thought.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man...

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is...

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is...

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.