Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
More Quotes from Voltaire:
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.Voltaire
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
Voltaire
Better is the enemy of good.
Voltaire
Those who are absent, by its means become present it (mail) is the consolation of life.
Voltaire
Animals have these advantages over man They never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Woman QuotesBased on Keywords: inventors
Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.
George Farquhar
If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
Albert Brooks
All I ever wanted to be was happy.
Goldie Hawn