Ladies'

I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street† I am for Kool-art, 7-UP art, Pepsi-art, Sunshine art, 39 cents art,15 cents art,Vatronol art, Dro-bomb art,Vam art, Menthol art,L & M art,Ex-lax art,Venida art,Heaven Hill art, Pamryl art, San-o-med art, Rx art, 9.99 art, Now art,Newart, Howart, Fire sale art, Last Chance art,Only art, Diamond art,Tomorrow art, Franks art, Ducks art, Meat-o-rama art.

—Oldenburg, ClaesThure

By act of Congress, male officers are gentlemen, but by act of God, we are ladies.

—Cadoria, Brigadier General Sherian G(race)

   the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

The chic old blue-haired ladies†chew in mute chandeliered isolation.

—Capote,Truman

   London, thou art of townes A per se. Soveraign of cities, someliest in sight, Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie; Of lordis, barons, and many goodly knyght; Of most delectable lusty ladies bright; Of famous prelatis in habitis clericall; Of merchauntis full of sybstaunce and myght; London, thou art the flour of Cities all.

—Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re

O happy dames, that may embrace The fruit of your delight, Help to bewail the woeful case And eke the heavy plight Of me, that wonted to rejoice The fortune of my pleasant choice. Good ladies, help to fill my mourning voice.

—Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of

'We'll be the Indians, if we last another twenty years,' Augustus said.'The way this place is settling up it'll be nothing but churches and dry-goods stores before you know it.Next thing you know they'll haveto round up us old rowdies and stick us on a reservation to keep us from scaring the ladies.'

—McMurtry, LarryJeff

Although Marycannot be a model for the New Woman, a goddess is better than no goddess at all, for the sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

—Warner, Marina Sarah

I always said that I'd like Barrymore's acting till the cows came home. Well, ladies and gentlemen, last Nathan sciences,themarrowof wit, andtheveryphraseofangels. night the cows came home.

—Nathan, GeorgeJean

Brought up inanage when ladies apparently rolledalong on wheels, Mr Quarles was peculiarly susceptible to calves.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

—Amin (Dada), Idi

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

—Tree, Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm

I care not for these ladies that must be wooed and prayed. Give me kind Amaryllis, the wanton country maid.

—Campion,Thomas

Towered cities pleased us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.

—Milton,John

  Yield, ladies, yield to love, ladies, which lurketh under your eyelids whilst you sleep and playeth with your heartstrings whilst you wake, whose sweetness never breedeth satiety, labour weariness, nor grief bitterness.

—Lyly,John

And lang, lang may the ladyes sit, Wi' their fans into their hand, Before they see Sir Patrick Spens Come sailing to the strand! 56

—Ballads

Little old ladies in tennis shoes.

—Mosk, Stanley

In company with several other old ladies of both sexes.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember 3 the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

—Adams, Abigail

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any numberof old ladies.

—Faulkner,William Harrison

ButöOh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all?.

—Rochdale

The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

—Swift,Jonathan