If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.
~ Havelock Ellis
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
A man's idee in a card game is war- crool devastatin' and pitiless. A lady's idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny embezzlement an' burglary.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough and need career no further. If a man marries on the other hand public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.
~ Rose Macaulay
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
~ Susan Sontag
In our civilization men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
~ Theodor Reik
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
~ C. S. Lewis
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin except to be there when he doesn't want her.
~ Helen Rowland
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
~ Dion Boucicault
Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
~ Maryon Pearson
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
~ Harold Coffin
If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.
~ Henry S. Haskins
God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.
~ William Shakespeare
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later. For another thing they die earlier.
~ H. L. Mencken
There is no word equivalent to 'cuckold' for women.
~ Joseph Epstein
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
~ Dorothy Parker
A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.
~ William Binger
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
~ Arturo Toscanini
The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.
Flirtation - attention without intention.
~ Max O'neil
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
~ Oscar Wilde
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
~ Samuel Johnson
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
~ James Thurber
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
I love men not because they are men but because they are not women.
~ Christina
It women knew what we were thinking they'd never stop slapping us.
~ Larry Miller
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
~ Erma Bombeck
A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
~ Nancy Reagan
Macho does not prove mucho.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
Tell me about yourself - your struggles your dreams your telephone number.
~ Peter Arno
Be pretty if you can be witty if you must be agreeable if it kills you.
~ Elsie De Wolfe
For a single woman preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.
~ Elayne Boosler
Men like cars women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.
~ Rita Rudner
She has such a nice sense of rumor.
~ John Cutler
Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.
If you ever leave me I'll go with you.
~ Rene Taylor
