There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
—Colette (1873–1954) French Novelist, Performer
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) French Historian, Political Scientist
A girl never grows into a lady.
—Russian Proverb
Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.
—African Proverb
A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
—Anita Loos (1888–1981) American Actor, Novelist, Screenwriter
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
—Willa Cather (1873–1947) American Novelist, Writer
The girl who can’t dance says the band can’t play.
—Yiddish Proverb
Eat your fish while it is still fresh and marry the girl while she is still young.
—German Proverb
When a girl is born it is like having six thieves invade the house.
—Polish Proverb
A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.
—French Proverb
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American Journalist, Humorist
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American Novelist
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
—F. H. Bradley (1846–1924 ) British Idealist Philosopher
Her father’s fortune will make the ugliest girl attractive.
—Spanish Proverb
There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
—U.S. Proverb
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
—Yiddish Proverb
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
—Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American Comedienne, Writer
If I were a girl, I’d despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
—Robert Ranke Graves (1895–1985) English Poet, Novelist, Critic, Classical Scholar
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
—Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French Fashion Designer
No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl’s heart.
—Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France
Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
—Irish Proverb
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British Actor
There are so many girls, and so few princes.
—Liza Minnelli (b.1946) American Singer, Actress
I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
—Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
—Louisa May Alcott (1832–88) American Novelist
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
—Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer
To have beautiful servant girls is a threat to good marriages.
—Chinese Proverb
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