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1. "Men do not change; they unmask themselves."

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein

2. "Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl."

Stephen Leacock

Quotations about: Love -:- Marriage

3. "Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

Anatol France

4. "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship."

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Quotations about: Marriage

5. "Men love women because women are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn."

Guy Browning

6. "The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

7. "Every girl should use what mother nature gives her before father time takes it away."

Laurence J. Peter

Quotations about: Youth and Age

8. "Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen."

Sir Compton Mackenzie, "Literature in My Time"

9. "Women and elephants never forget an injury."

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

Quotations about: Memory

10. "The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman."

Willa Cather, "O Pioneers!"

Quotations about: History and Nations

11. "Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible."

Margaret Mead

12. "It is a well-known statistical paradox that the average age of women over forty is under forty."

Morris James Slonim

Quotations about: Youth and Age

13. "Happiness is a good martini, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman... or a bad woman, depending on how much happiness you can stand."

George Burns

Quotations about: Happiness

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

Robert Lee Frost

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

15. "A diplomatic husband said to his wife: "How do you expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older?""

Anon.

Quotations about: Time and Passing

16. "When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Victor Hugo

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

17. "A woman never shot a man while he was doing dishes."

Anon.

18. "The girl with a future avoids a man with a past."

Evan Esar

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

Marcel Achard

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

20. "Most women are not so young as they are painted."

Sir Max Beerbohm

Quotations about: Youth and Age

21. "A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

Robert Lee Frost

Quotations about: Time and Passing

22. "Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you."

Helen Rowland

Quotations about: Marriage

23. "To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end."

Helen Rowland

24. "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

Quotations about: Marriage

25. "Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

26. "Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Chrestomathy"

27. "When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Chrestomathy"

28. "Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything."

William Shakespeare

Quotations about: Marriage

29. "Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

30. "There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way."

Karl Kraus

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

31. "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Love -:- Happiness

32. "God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman. "

Victor Hugo

33. "Women don't make history, they complicate it."

Anon.

Quotations about: History and Nations

34. "Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

Evan Esar

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

35. "Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."

Karl Kraus

Quotations about: Love

36. "Men are what their mothers made them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

37. "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

38. "In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Love

39. "When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand."

Oscar Wilde

40. "Women... Women are lovely, but dogs are so much more loyal."

Sacha Guitry

Quotations about: Loyalty and Betrayal

41. "Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another."

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Love

42. "A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

43. "Women can fake orgasms, men can fake the whole relationships."

Anon.

44. "Put your hand on a hot stove and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Various

45. "If women were good, God would have one."

Sacha Guitry

Quotations about: Marriage

46. "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, "The Moon and Sixpence"

Quotations about: Forgiveness

47. "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 Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Quotations about: Marriage -:- Family and Loneliness

48. "A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

49. "I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair"

Quotations about: Marriage

50. "Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Quotations about: Marriage

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