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 | Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 28 likes |
 | Men always want to be a woman’s first love. What women like is to be a man’s last romance. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 25 likes |
 | A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 22 likes |
 | You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 19 likes |
 | God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 15 likes |
 | A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 14 likes |
| A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 14 likes |
 | To “catch” a husband is an art; to “hold” him is a job. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 14 likes |
 | What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 13 likes |
 | The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 13 likes |
 | When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 12 likes |
 | In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 10 likes |
 | Women inspire us to do great things and prevent us from accomplishing them. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 10 likes |
 | Women do not sleep with men, but with abstract concepts: power, power, reputation, money, fashion… — Jean Dutourd, 1920-2011, French writer 10 likes |
| The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 10 likes |
 | Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 9 likes |
| Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 9 likes |
 | Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 9 likes |
 | Few women inspire tenderness after sex, few men have the courtesy to fake it. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist 8 likes |
 | I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 8 likes |
 | A man who thinks not of a woman as the complement of a sex, but of sex as the complement of a woman, is ready for love. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 8 likes |
 | Woman like silent men, they think they are listening. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 8 likes |
| Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 7 likes |
| My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, “Serve all, love one.” — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 7 likes |
| I like men who have a future and women who have a past. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | Men hunt. Women fish. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 6 likes |
| Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 6 likes |
| Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | In the duel of sex, woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 6 likes |
| All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
| To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 6 likes |
| A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | A woman hides from a man her past, the man hides her future. — Anonymous 5 likes |
| For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 5 likes |
 | Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | A woman usually leaves a man only for another man, while a man may very well leave a woman because of her. — Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer 5 likes |
 | The only place men want depth in a woman is in her decolletage. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 5 likes |
 | Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last. — Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet 5 likes |
 | A woman’s vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 5 likes |
| You never really know a man until you have divorced him. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 4 likes |
 | A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. — Brendan Francis, 1923-1964, Irish poet & writer 4 likes |
 | Man has his will, but woman has her way! — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 4 likes |
| A wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 4 likes |
| Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side and his nobler instincts - and another woman to help him forget them. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 4 likes |
 | Anatomy is destiny. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 4 likes |
| The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 4 likes |
| One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 4 likes |
| No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 4 likes |
 | Agamemnon escaped with his life from land battles and sea storms, then fell to his wife. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 4 likes |
 | Strong women only marry weak men. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 3 likes |
 | There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 3 likes |
| The “rights” of women are men's duties. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | What would happen to the power of women if it were not for the vanity of men? — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims 3 likes |
 | It sometimes happens that the woman hides all the passion she feels for a man and the man pretends all the passion he does not have. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 3 likes |
 | It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 3 likes |
 | He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 3 likes |
| A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | All real men are either married or working too much. — Juliette Greco, 1927-2020, French singer 3 likes |
| Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
| When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 2 likes |
| Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 2 likes |
| A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 2 likes |
 | If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 2 likes |
| The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
| Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 2 likes |
 | I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 2 likes |
| Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 2 likes |
 | What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 2 likes |
 | God is for men, and religion for women. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 2 likes |
| Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 2 likes |
| Man begins by loving sex and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving sex. |
 | I stopped looking for a dream girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare. |
| What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman. |
 | Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. |
| Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized. |
| And yet women –good women– frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. |
 | A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. |
| No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his manhood. |
 | I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. |
| And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. |
 | One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. |
 | If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. |
| A husband should always know what his wife has, because she always knows what she doesn’t have. |
| The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. |
| A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. |
| The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs. |
| Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with an iron will. |
| A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. |
| The male is an accident; the female would have sufficed. |
| A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others’. |
| Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies. |
| Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men. |
 | The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. |
| For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. |
 | I don’t know why women want any of the things men have, when one of the things that women have is men. |
| Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. |
| As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything. |
 | If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word. |
 | Intelligent women always marry fools. |
| Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. |
| Women like what they hear, men like what they see. |
 | A woman of thirty-five always looks older than a man of thirty-five. Why ? Because it really is. |
| The mystery of man is that woman can love him. |
| The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do. |
| Men have always detested women‘’s gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. |
| Beware of the man who wants to protect you; he will protect you from everything but himself. |
 | No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer. |
| A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board. |
 | The great fault in women is to desire to be like men. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy. |
 | True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it. |
| Men, my dear, are like kites, the more rope you give them, the more you hold them. |
| Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they would never allow you to wound their self-esteem. |
 | A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons. |
 | Man's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him. |
 | Women can do anything men can do, but often have more sense than even to be interested. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | A woman who needs romantic favors to feel loved will never feel loved. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
| Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
 | With marriage, something ends for men. For women, it's the opposite: something begins. |
 | What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. |
 | The women today are no more forgiving us our sins; they do not even forgive us theirs. |
 | Women, when looking to find a man, consider their girlfriends’ opinion of him much more than their own. |
 | A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress. |
Personal Stories
 | Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 6 likes |
Bible Quotes
 | It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him. — Old Testament ‐ Genesis 2:18 5 likes |
| This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called “woman”, for she was taken out of man. — Old Testament ‐ Genesis 2:23 4 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 2 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 14 likes |
 | Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in. — Katharine Whitehorn, 1928-2021, British columnist 8 likes |
| If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong? — Anonymous 7 likes |
 | The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired. — Milton Berle, 1908-2002, American comedian 5 likes |
 | I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 5 likes |
 | An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. — Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British writer 1 likes |
 | From the day that God put man in the presence of woman, paradise became hell. |
Stupid Quotes
 | A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 14 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | It’s not beauty but character that pleases husbands. Ού το κάλλος, ω γύναι, αλλ’ αρεταί τέρπουσι τους ξυνευνέτας. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Andromache 7 likes |
| It’s bitter for a young woman an old husband. Πικρόν νέα γυναικί πρεσβύτης ανήρ. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Phoenix 7 likes |
 | There is nothing better than a good wife. Ού μεν γαρ τι γυναικός άμεινον αγαθής. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -702 5 likes |
| The best possession of a man is a sympathetic woman. Άριστον ανδρί κτήμα συμπαθής γυνή. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Antigone 4 likes |
 | Some people rule cities and are slaves to women. Ένιοι, πόλεων μεν δεσπόζουσι, γυναιξί δε δουλεύουσι. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
| To be ruled by a woman is the ultimate disgrace for a man. Υπό γυναικός άρχεσθαι ύβρις είη εν ανδρί εσχάτη. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
| A woman brings both great benefit and great distress to man. Γυναίκα και ωφελίαν και νόσον ανδρί φέρει μεγίσταν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Alcmeon 3 likes |
| Other misfortunes are secondary for a woman, but if she loses her husband, she loses her life. Τα μεν γαρ άλλα δεύτερα αν πάσχη γυνή, ανδρός δ’ αμαρτάνουσα, αμαρτάνει βίου. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Andromache 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | When women go wrong, men go right after them. — from the film She Done Him Wrong (1933) 9 likes |
 | - What's more ethical: The women who cheats, or the man who walks out? - The woman who cheats. — from the film Breathless (1960) 4 likes |
