Men and Women Quotes |
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~ Fire, the sea, and woman; these are three ills. ~ Proverb
~ Behind every great man there's a great woman. ~ Proverb ~ Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. ~ Jules Michelet ~ A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. ~ Thomas Fuller ~ God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool. ~ Victor Hugo ~ Men are what their mothers made them.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ No woman wants to see herself too clearly.~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~ Latin Proverb ~ Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be. ~ Proverb ~ A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~ Washington Irving ~ One is not born a woman, one becomes one. ~ Simone de Beauvoir ~ A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium. ~ Anonymous ~ Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. ~ Maryon Pearson ~ I like men who have a future and women who have a past. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ~ Anonymous ~ There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence. ~ T.S. Eliot ~ To get to a woman's heart, a man must first use his own. ~ Mike Dobbertin ~ It is because of men that women dislike one another. ~ Jean de La Bruyère ~ A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. ~ George Meredith ~ Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. ~ John Gray ~ A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. ~ Fannie Hurst ~ There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~ Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. ~ Samuel Butler ~ A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ~ Woodrow Wyatt ~ A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~ Arnold Haultain ~ A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be. ~ Johann von Goethe ~ The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. ~ Henry Brooks Adams ~ A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~ Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~ Elissa Melamed ~ Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. ~ Méré ~ A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. ~ Erica Jong ~ Contact with a high-minded woman is good for the life of any man. ~ Henry Vincent ~ Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something. ~ Josh Billings ~ A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. ~ Brendan Francis ~ A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. ~ William Shakespeare ~ Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. ~ Indian Proverb ~ Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. ~ Elbert Hubbard ~ Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last. ~ Remy De Gourmont ~ Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women~ Virginia Woolf ~ Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. ~ Lois Wyse ~ Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. ~ Honoré de Balzac ~ A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. ~ D.H. Lawrence ~ A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson ~ All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women. ~ Henry Louis Mencken ~ No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer. ~ Honore de Balzac ~ A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings. ~ Olin Miller ~ Men always want to be a woman's first love, women like to be a man's last romance. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. ~ Honore de Balzac ~ What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. ~ George Jean Nathan ~ No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time. ~ Helen Rowland ~ Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat. ~ Samuel Butler ~ Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.~ Cornelia Otis Skinner ~ All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse. ~ Golda Meir ~ A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference. ~ Louise Nevelson ~ Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago. ~ Henry Louis Mencken ~ Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous. ~ Erin Pizzey ~ Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. ~ Joseph Conrad ~ When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. ~ John Steinbeck ~ What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them. ~ Evelyn Waugh ~ A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. ~ Edgar Watson Howe ~ There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ~ Stephen Stills ~ When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom. ~ John Gray ~ When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror. ~ Margaret Turnbull ~ Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. ~ Jules Renard ~ Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies. ~ Frank Gelett Burgess ~ A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ~ Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. ~ H. L. Mencken ~ The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~ Chinese Proverbs ~ Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family. ~ Robert M. Maciver ~ The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. ~ Marlene Dietrich ~ Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. ~ Henry Louis Mencken ~ A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.~ Helen Rowland ~ A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.~ Anonymous ~ A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed. ~ Anonymous ~ A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.~ William Somerset Maugham ~ When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. ~ Honore de Balzac ~ Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. ~ Virginia Woolf ~ And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. ~ Helen Rowland ~ It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked. ~ Anna Wickham ~ A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.~ Helen Rowland ~ I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.~ George Elio |
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~ The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating. ~ Henry Louis Mencken
~ The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. ~
Helen Rowland
~ The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. ~
Helen Rowland