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A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
Don Quinn

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

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

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

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
Elbert Hubbard

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

A woman has to be twice as good as a man, to be regarded as half that clever.
Unknown

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling

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

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't.
Unknown

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen

Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud

Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.
Henry Louis Mencken

Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.
Rudyard Kipling

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
Helen Rowland

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
Benny Hill

Give a man free hands and you'll know where to find them.
Mae West

have another.
Unknown

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

If the effort that went in research on the female bosom had gone into our space program, we would now be running hot dog stands on the moon.
Unknown

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

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis

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

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.
Krystal Ann Kraus

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

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
Lord Kelvin

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

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

Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
Peter Wastholm

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

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties.
Douglas Jerrold

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

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

Sex is what women have and men want.
Unknown

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

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

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

There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
Gloria Steinem

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

Were there no women, men might live like gods.
Thomas Dekker

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

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

When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it.
Charles Merrill Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

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

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