said about women...
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, "monster incomprehensible," raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.