WOMEN.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 154, 25 August 1883, Page 10

WOMEN.

WHAT THE GERMANS SAY OF THEM. (Specially Compiled for the Observer.). A noble man is led by woman's gentle words. — G-oebhe. The society of women is the element of good, manners . — Goethe . A loving maiden grows unconsciously morjfo bold. — Jean Paul F. Kichter. Love lessens woman's delicacy, and increasesman's. — Jean Paul F. Eichter. That woman is despicable who, having children,, ever feels ennui. — Jean Paul F. Eichter. I have always said it — Nature never meant to make woman as its masterpiece. — Lessing. What could a woman's head contrive which, she would not know how to excuse ?. — Lessing. For, when we speed to the devil's house,, woman takes the lead by a thousand steps. — Goethe. To use an appropriate simile, children are, in^. the first instance, in women's habits. — Jean Paul . F. Eichter. Everything is easier to disguise from women . (than love) — even hate, than its opposite. — Jean . Paul F. Eichter. It is, as it were, born in maidens, that they should wish to please everything that has eyes. — Salomon Gessner. i As his wife has been given to man as his best - half, so night is the half of life, and by far the better part of life. — Goethe. Learn, above all, to manage women; theirthousand ahs ! and ohs ! so thousand fold, can be cured from a single point.—^Goethe. You wish, O woman ! to be ardently loved, and for ever, even till death. Be, then, the mothers of your children. — Jean Paul F. Eichter. One single honest man may yet be seen j buf^ wander all the world round to find ona honest- . woman, you will search in vain. — Wielaad. it is bent ; the higher worth of women is <§poner~ lost than that of men. — Jean Paul F. Riehti?!^^^^^ The old age of women is sadder and moresolitary than that of men ; spare, therefore, in . them their years, their sorrows, and i heir sex I — Jean Paul F. Eichter. Connoisseurs say that every secret told to oneof the fair sex is a sticking-plaster, which attache*him to her, and often begets a second secret, — Jean Paul F. Eichter. Women are especially first-rate letter- writers, and we men are only bunglers. To write of love,, that can no man do, as they can v.ith their grandiloquent language. — Schleierinaeh< i r. When women wish to carry a point, and find, hindrances constantly recurring, they grow £j^(j last blind and wild, and dare anything everything. — Jean Paul F. Eichter. <J9H O, if the loving, closed heart of a good womp^W should open before man, how much controlled. V tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and. dumb-, virtues would he Bee reposing therein ! — Jean . Paul F. Eiohter. He who trusts women ploughs the wind, sowaon the barren sea, finds not the bottom of the - hidden ocean, writes his recollections in thesnow, draws water, like the Danaidea, with pitchers full . of holes. — Paul Flomming. Women do not sufficiently comprehend that an. idea, when it fills and elevates man's mind, shuts • it against love, and crowds out persons ; whereas, . with women, all ideas easily become human beings. — Jean Paul F. Eichter. If thou approachest women with tenderness,, thou winnest them with a word ; and he who is. bold and saucy conies off still better; but theman who seems to care little whether he charms and attracts, is he who offends and who seduces. — Anastasius Grim. Yet, when we are at our last gasp, notwithstanding the best of counsel, acting and praying, a woman's cunning often 3aves us from all ourpain and sorrow. For the deceit of priests and the cunning of women surpasses everything, as you know. — Burger. Honour to women ! they twine and weave the--rosea of heaven into the life of man ; it is they that unite us in the fascinating bonds of love ; and, concealed in the modest veil of the Graces,, they cherish carefully the external fire of delicate feeling with holy hands. — Schiller. However, a female heart is often like marble ;. the cunning stone-cutter strikes a thousand blows without the Parian block showing the line of a. crack, but all at once it breaks asunder into thevery form which the cunning stone-cutter basso long been hammering after. — Jean Paul F» Eichter. But with soft persuasive prayers woman wields-, the sceptre of the life which she charmeth : she lulls the discord which roars and glows— teaches^ the fierce powers whioh hate- each other likefiends to embrace in the bonds of love — and draws together what are for ever flying asunder.. — Schiller. ■ We women only seek one possession in narrow limits on this earth, and pray, that it may .be" permanent. We are secure of no man's heart, however warm it may have been once towards us. Beauty is transient, which alone ye (men) seems to honor. What remains no longer charms, and. what does not charm is dead. — Goethe. Weighty moments there are in life, very many^ that stir the depths of man's heart with joy and grief. If man on such occasions forget his external appearance, and often presents himself tc* the world in careless guise, a woman wishes tcv please all, and, by well-selected dress and gay attire, to excite the envy of her compeers.-; — Goethe. p ? Men think more on the immediate, the present ; and properly enough, because it is their parts to act and work ; women, on the other hand,.- . more on how things hang together in life, and ' that, too, with «qual right, because their fate and the fate of their families is bound ;*up in this union ; and it is precisely that-whidh is required of them. — Goethe.