Brilliant

"The silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool."  How perfect.  This was coined by Rudyard Kipling, the brilliant Bombay-born writer, 1865 to 1936.  Wondering what other splendid bon mots he uttered, I googled his witticisms.  Here are a few more:

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

 

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

 

"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

 

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

 

"I have struck a city -- a real city -- and they call it Chicago....I urgently desire never to see it again.  It is inhabited by savages.

 

"Asia is not going to be civilized by the methods of the West.  There is too much Asia and she is too old.

 

"It is clever, but is it Art?

 

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by man."

 

 

They just don't make 'em like that anymore.

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Note:  Writing about writing, here's an expression that has gone viral and which I hate:  "going forward".  What does that mean?  For example, "Those are a few of the measures we'll be implementing to improve service........going forward."  You don't need the "going forward" part.  Just put a period after "service".  Start listening, you'll hear it everywhere.  Drives me crazy -- almost as much as "is-is" and "was-is".