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Men and Women

52 aphorisms  ·  11 comments

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tiny.ag/1nyf2coi  ·  submitted 1997

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

Giovanni Boccaccio, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/rrtq0cbj  ·  submitted 1997

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

Robert Frost, in Law and Politics and Men and Women

tiny.ag/ndewfsya  ·  submitted 1997

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

Sigmund Freud, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/bxwn93cu  ·  submitted 1997

Anatomy is destiny.

Sigmund Freud, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/umjestnq  ·  submitted 1997

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

Fontenelle, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/ymbukbew  ·  submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/n51jrfp4  ·  submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/wrcm1vhx  ·  submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/tcrvsd4o  ·  submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/osjwdfeg  ·  submitted 1997

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

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

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women

tiny.ag/xkpw5kax  ·  submitted 1997

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

Jane Austen, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/pn9z1dol  ·  submitted 1997

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

Marcel Archard, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/byi02vnc  ·  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.

John Erskine, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/tr9cqzsg  ·  submitted 1997

Sex is what women have and men want.

Unknown, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/v6ukdwhs  ·  submitted 1997

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

Jane Austen, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/u0wakq2d  ·  submitted 1997

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Unknown, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/ba1k2myj  ·  submitted 1999 by Falcon

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/i3egysnq  ·  submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/c8lfkzap  ·  submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/ipnqtb0n  ·  submitted 1997

If the effort that went in research on the female bosom had gone into our space program, we would now be running hot dog stands on the moon.

Unknown, in Men and Women