Aristotle

The female is also more given to learning and more docile, and more apt to be taught.

The female is also more given to imitation and more imitative, and more apt to mimic.

The female is also more given to flattery and more obsequious, and more apt to fawn.

The female is also more given to revenge and more vindictive, and more apt to retaliate.

The female is also more given to superstition and more credulous, and more apt to believe.

The female is also more given to melancholy and more despondent, and more apt to be sad.

The female is also more given to madness and more insane, and more apt to be mad.

The female is also more given to despair and more hopeless, and more apt to be desperate.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

To live alone one must be either a beast or a god.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Wit, he says in the Rhetoric (2, 12), is educated insolence.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Hope is a waking dream.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.