Henry James on women

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

• Animals
• Men

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

• Beauty