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Men and Women

52 aphorisms  ·  12 comments

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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 (1016 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

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

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

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

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (183 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.

[aphorist] Peter Wastholm, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (168 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Give a man free hands and you'll know where to find them.

[aphorist] Mae West, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (175 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it.

[aphorist] Charles Merrill Smith, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (191 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.

[aphorist] Gloria Steinem, in [category] Men and Women and [category] Success and Failure

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

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

[aphorist] Don Quinn, in [category] Love and Hate and [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (155 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

[aphorist] Helen Rowland, in [category] Love and Hate and [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (722 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (824 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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (798 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

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