“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”
Source: The Disorderly Knights
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Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
As quoted in Vivekananda : The Yogas and Other Works (1953), p. 173; also at "The Story Of Swami Vivekananda: Mission Impossible" at MyLifeYoga (10 December 2011) http://mylifeyoga.com/2011/12/10/the-story-of-swami-vivekananda-mission-impossibl/ <br class="br">Context: After so much austerity I have known that the highest truth is this: He is present in every being! These are all in manifold forms of him. There is no other God to seek for! He alone is worshipping God, who serves all beings!
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Source: As quoted in Vivekananda : The Yogas and Other Works (1953), p. 173; also at "The Story Of Swami Vivekananda: Mission Impossible" at MyLifeYoga (10 December 2011) http://mylifeyoga.com/2011/12/10/the-story-of-swami-vivekananda-mission-impossibl/
“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Source: The Woman in White
Edith Stein (1891–1942) Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher
Essays on Woman (1996), Fundamental Principles of Women's Education (1931)
“Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain,
Inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
" Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain http://www.bartleby.com/126/10.html", st. 1 <br class="br">Poems (1817)
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
“He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
On the Tranquillity of the Mind
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)