“The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.”
Muriel Spark book The Comforters
The Comforters (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957) p. 28
“One way to hold a woman is not to hold her.”
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)
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John Carder Bush (1944) British artist; brother of Kate Bush
This portion of the track "Jig of Life" on his sister Kate's album Hounds of Love (1985) was actually written as well as spoken by JCB.
Jig of Life (1985)
Context: Can't you see where memories are kept bright?
Tripping on the water like a laughing girl.
Time in her eyes is spawning past life,
One with the ocean and the woman unfurled,
Holding all the love that waits for you here.
Catch us now for I am your future.
A kiss on the wind and we'll make the land.
Come over here to where When lingers,
Waiting in this empty world,
Waiting for Then, when the lifespray cools.
For Now does ride in on the curl of the wave,
And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools.
We are of the going water and the gone.
We are of water in the holy land of water
And all that's to come runs in
With the thrust on the strand.
Edouard Manet (1832–1883) French painter
a remark of Manet to Mallarmé, recorded by Thadée Natanson [husband of Misia Sert ]; as quoted in Berthe Morisot, the first lady of impressionism, Margaret Shennan; Sutton Books London 1996, p.136
1876 - 1883
Gu Hongming book The Spirit of the Chinese People
page 79
The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915), Chinese Woman
“A man can sometimes hold his own with one woman, but never with two.”
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer
Source: John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (1886), Ch. 12, p. 207.
Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 25 (as translated by RM Adams)
Context: I conclude, then, that so long as Fortune varies and men stand still, they will prosper while they suit the times, and fail when they do not. But I do feel this: that it is better to be rash than timid, for Fortune is a woman, and the man who wants to hold her down must beat and bully her. We see that she yields more often to men of this stripe than to those who come coldly toward her.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Source: The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli - Original Version
