Men and Women

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

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

Jane Austen, in Men and Women

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

Marcel Archard, in Men and Women

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

Gelett Burgess, in Men and Women

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

Giovanni Boccaccio, in Men and Women

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

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

Sex is what women have and men want.

Unknown, in Men and Women

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

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

Oscar Wilde, in Men and Women

You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside.

Heathcote Williams, in Men and Women

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.

Reginald Williams, in Men and Women

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

Unknown, in Law and Politics and Men and Women

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

Unknown, in Love and Hate and Men and Women