Women are naturally secretive and they like to do their own secreting.

Friends are generally of the same sex for when men and women agree it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

I chose Sony Classics not just because of their practical experience not just because of their wisdom in marketing but mainly because of their integrity.

Your law may be perfect your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill and yet without individual acquaintance with men their haunts and habits the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult slow and expensive.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies and passing 30 were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing despite the drawbacks - thinner drier skin.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.