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Men and Women

52 aphorisms  ·  12 comments

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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (793 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

[aphorist] Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in [category] Life and Death and [category] Men and Women

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (228 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

[aphorist] Friedrich Nietzsche, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (101 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

[aphorist] Aristotle Onassis, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (743 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Women make love for love, men make love for lust.

[aphorist] Derrick Harge, in [category] Love and Hate and [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (820 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999  · 

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

[aphorist] Robert A. Heinlein, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (989 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

It is the ordinary women that know something about love. The gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

[aphorist] Katharine Hepburn, in [category] Love and Hate and [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (149 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.

[aphorist] Henry Louis Mencken, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (747 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

[aphorist] Jane Austen, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (724 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

[aphorist] Jane Austen, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (152 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

A woman has to be twice as good as a man, to be regarded as half that clever.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (128 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (113 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The more I know men, the more I love my dog.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (140 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

When a female has tears in her eyes the one who cannot see is the male.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (136 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

When a man's wife learns to understand him, she usually stops listening to him.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (142 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Women first want to find out what is in your wallet, and second what is in your pants.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (154 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (157 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A man needs a mistress, just to break the monogamy.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Love and Hate and [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (877 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Falcon

Men don't need women -- they just need certain parts of their anatomy.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (119 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (151 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she says.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Men and Women

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