It is a comedic book, but he says, with truth in it.
Nothing can ever be funny unless it's true on some level.
Really good post.
True.
I'll add more here, but intend to read the book
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... =22&t=3402 before anything else (this might be the greatest read on proverbs for the analysis and cathegories, I'll comment it later.)
So, before I found the book, I already translated :
Lord Byron: « It is easier to die for the woman you love than to live with her. »
Cavanna : In every woman, there is an angel sleeping. You just have to beat her enough to wake it up.
When a woman talks to you, smile but do not listen. - Chinese Proverb (allegedly in 'Book of Rites', but couldn't find the english version except with the mention above)
Guitry : There are many women that stay with their men, because they think that their man wouldn't mind them leaving.
Guitry : Women believe all men are the same because they behave the same way with all men.
Geraldy « It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. »
“There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears.” by John Webster
(Sacha Guitry). “If we give a woman everything she wants, she will find the desire for things we cannot give her.”
Tristand Bernard ; When a woman shows her breast, she thinks she offers her heart.
Rohan Chabot : Women will blame you the most on what they made you do.
Marcel Pagnol : There are three things a woman doesn't forgive to her man : the good she did to him, the bad he did to her, and more importantly, the bad she couldn't do to him.
Dr Möbius : The tongue is woman's sword because her weaker body prevents her to fight with her fists and her weaker intellect prevents her from giving proofs : what is left only is the abondance of words.
Ambrose Bierce : The man who succeeds with women is the one who can do without them.
André Frossard : There are still many things to do for woman's condition for it to be as bad as our's.
Alfred Capus : Women today don't forgive us for our mistakes, they don't even forgive us for theirs.
Streletski : Men are full of contrasts, women are full of contradictions.
Tristand Bernard : When a woman accepts to meet you, she never knows whether she will consent or not, that's precisely to know it that she accepts to meet you.
Karl Kraus : Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
Karl Kraus : “Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.”
Karl Kraus : “Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousness.”
Gustave Flaubert : “The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!”
Georges CLEMENCEAU ... We shouldn't forbid little boys to beat little girls : they're just taking revenge by anticipation of all the problems women will give them.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner (In my book, it is Sasha Guitry the author, and it's more likely)
Benserade : You are our halves, with us by your side you become whole.
Separate yourself from us you are but lone parts. You are nothing at all.
Separate yourself from us you are but shadows, without strength or power.
You are the zeros, and we are the numbers that make you worth while.