No one delights more in revenge than a woman.


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No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
UNKNOWN
No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
MINNA ANTRIM
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul
MINNA ANTRIM
No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
MEIR KAHANE
A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
SIMONIDES
When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yo...
JODI PICOULT
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.
WALTER WECKLER
Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.
WALTER WECKLER
Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions, than salt water has on thirst.
UNKNOWN
No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
ELIZABETH BERG
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; all spiritual pleasures, more in ...
OWEN FELLTHAM
Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more ...
FRANCOIS FENELON
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more...
FRANCOIS FÉNELON
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more ...
FRANCOIS FTNELON
I am more then a African American woman, I am strength a woman with goals beyond what your eyes can ...
TANICA S HALL
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Hold a true friend with both hands
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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
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A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.
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J.M. BARRIE
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prost...
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But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he...
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One must talk little and listen much
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AARON LEE
We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.
MARY STUART
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.
BISHOP T. WILSON
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
JAMES HOWELL (HOWEL)
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
JAMES HOWELL
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
JAMES HOWELL
Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told mysel...
ANNE RICE
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.
JACK NICHOLSON
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woma...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
There is no one dangerous than a lying woman, because everyone believes what women say.
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
EURIPIDES
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man
J. B. BOSSUET
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WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
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WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
The only man who could be worse than a bad woman is one who loves to see his face in one or the othe...
ANUJ SOMANY
No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
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DR. ABBY SIEGEL
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JOHN KEATS
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
SACHA GUITRY
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - e...
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Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.
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I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Isla...
ANNIE BESANT
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
VICTORIA WOODHULL
One man is no more than another if he does no more than another
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter
AFRICAN PROVERB
Do not worry about the fly that falls into your palm wine, worry about the frog that may be hopping ...
SEGUN OLOGE
I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Isla...
ANNIE BESANT
The fast lane I am flying down is one with no end in sight filled with reckless adventure and paved ...
ASHLEY YOUNG
There are more African-American men with suspended licenses than valid licenses,
GWEN MOORE
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THOMAS WOLFE
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking d...
TOM WOLFE
One woman filled with self love and self acceptance is a model more super than any cover girl.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with be...
MARLENE DIETRICH
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
J. C. WATTS
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
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UNKNOWN
Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
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CHAKA FATTAH
No one is more carnal than a recent virgin
JOHN STEINBECK
Many African Americans are living less than one paycheck away from hunger.
ERTHARIN COUSIN
No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
ARNOLD HAULTAIN
When the Sun comes up a Lion awakens he knows that he must outrun the slowest Gazelle or he will sta...
AN OLD AFRICAN PROVERB
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL
Woman understand children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who ...
LANA TURNER
Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more t...
TONI TENNILLE
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
A lost woman is more than a lost woman; she is a stairway of generations vanished.
JEFF MCMAHON
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
GAUTAMA BUDDHA

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