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
  Letter to  John  Adams, 31 Mar.

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
  Unsolicited advice to Lord Snowdon on the ending of his marriage to Princess Margaret, quoted in  A Barrow International Gossip (1983).

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
'Sir Patrick Spens'.

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

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza 22.

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

-Cadoria, Brigadier General Sherian G(race)
  In US News and World Report,13 Feb.

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

-Campion,Thomas
A Book of  Airs,'I Care Not for These Ladies'.

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

-Capote,Truman
Of elderly residents of the Ritz.  Answered Prayers (1986).

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

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  Tulips and Chimneys,'Sonnets-Realities', no.1.

In company with several other old ladies of both sexes.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.17.

   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
c.1501  'To the City of London', attributed to'A Rhymer of Scotland'. Dunbar was a member of the Scots party negotiating the marriage of  James I V to Margaret Tudor, and is popularly credited with the verse.

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
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Point Counter Point, ch.20.

  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
  Gallathea, epilogue.

'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
  Lonesome Dove, ch.42

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
c.1631 L'Allegro, l.117^24.

Little old ladies in tennis shoes.

-Mosk, Stanley
Characterizing older, activist women. Quoted in William Safire Safire's Political Dictionary (1975).

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
  Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil, 'An Invective Against Enemies of Poetry'. 1939  Review of  John Barrymore's performance in My Dear Children.

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
  Written for an exhibition in New York,1961, quoted in  Arts Council of Great Britain Oldenburg (1970).

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
  'O happy dames'.

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

-Swift,Jonathan
Thoughts onVarious Subjects.