Men and Women

Women like silent men. They think they're listening. [Select]

Marcel Archard

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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

Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Also in: Life and Death}

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Gelett Burgess

Were there no women, men might live like gods. [Select]

Thomas Dekker

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

Walt Disney

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

Alexandre Dumas

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

John Erskine

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

Fontenelle

Anatomy is destiny. [Select]

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud

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

Robert Frost {Also in: Law and Politics}

Women make love for love, men make love for lust. [Select]

Derrick Harge {Also in: Love and Hate}

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand. [Select]

Benny Hill

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. [Select]

Elbert Hubbard {Also in: Vice and Virtue}

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties. [Select]

Douglas Jerrold

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. [Select]

Lord Kelvin {Also in: Success and Failure}

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. [Select]

Rudyard Kipling {Also in: Vice and Virtue}

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