"Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted."
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View Plans"Sweet lady," said Florian, "all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned."
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
Men are frail creatures, of course; one does not expect them to exhibit the steadfastness of women.
Mrs. Vanderdecken,’ Sylvia went on, ‘says all men are repulsive and it’s woman’s disgusting task to live beside them.
Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
Young ladies from the upper crust.
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Sociological
Review revealed that atheists are the least trusted group in
America — less trusted, even, than homosexuals. It makes sense at least we trust the homosexuals with our hair.
On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
"Yes," said Lady St Julians. "I think those men who breakfast out or who give breakfasts are generally dangerous characters; at least, I would not trust them."
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
"One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. In common parlance we have much fine-spun theorizing on the exalted office of the mother, her immense influence in moulding the character of her sons; "the hand that rocks the cradle moves the world," etc., but in creeds and codes, in constitutions and Scriptures, in prose and verse, we do not see these lofty paeans recorded or verified in living facts. As a class, women were treated among the Jews as an inferior order of beings, just as they are to-day in all civilized nations. And now, as then, men claim to be guided by the will of God."
There is no beast more stubborn than a woman.
And neither fire nor leopard is more ruthless.
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