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Men and Women

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#  ·  **-- Not So Good (30 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

It is the ordinary women that know something about love. The gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

Katharine Hepburn, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1999 by Reginald Williams

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

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1999 by Falcon

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

Unknown, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (43 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

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

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1999

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

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (21 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (39 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Marcel Archard, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (28 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (30 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Jane Austen, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (46 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Giovanni Boccaccio, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (57 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Gelett Burgess, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (244 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Thomas Dekker, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (117 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Walt Disney, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (27 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Alexandre Dumas, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (24 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

John Erskine, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (28 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Fontenelle, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (18 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

Anatomy is destiny.

Sigmund Freud, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (27 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Sigmund Freud, in Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (50 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Robert Frost, in Law and Politics and Men and Women

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (16 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Women make love for love, men make love for lust.

Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

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