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Men and Women

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (981 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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (686 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Reginald Williams

If you have been involved with or enjoyed the company of a female for 6 months to a year, then you can say that you know a woman. If you have been involved with or enjoyed the company of a female for 1 to 4 years, then you can say that you understand a woman. If you have been involved with or enjoyed the company of a female for 4 or more years, then you can say that you have learned from a woman.

[aphorist] Reginald Williams, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (867 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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (785 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

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)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (830 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

The only thing that men and women have in common, is that they both prefer the company of men.

[aphorist] Oscar Wilde, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (804 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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (713 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

[aphorist] Marcel Archard, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (742 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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (721 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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (794 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

[aphorist] Giovanni Boccaccio, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (777 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap -- even men who hate baths.

[aphorist] Gelett Burgess, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (983 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

[aphorist] Thomas Dekker, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (791 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

[aphorist] Walt Disney, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (717 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.

[aphorist] Alexandre Dumas, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (795 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

[aphorist] John Erskine, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (734 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes.

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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (703 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

Anatomy is destiny.

[aphorist] Sigmund Freud, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (680 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The great question -- which I have not been able to answer -- is, "What does a woman want?"

[aphorist] Sigmund Freud, in [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1038 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.

[aphorist] Robert Frost, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Men and Women

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (708 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

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