Woman and Man

"The Creator made women to please the eyes and trouble the mind."

Robert Jordan

Woman and Man

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?"

Kurt Vonnegut

Life and Death

Woman and Man

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason."

Stanley Baldwin

Intellect, Judgement

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.14 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund."

Carol Evertt

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

Ingrid Bergman

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Those who think installing Linux is difficult obviously never tried to understand women."

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Science and Technology

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know."

Mistinguett

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Man without a woman is a mirror in which no one is looking. A woman without a man is a reflection that does not have its mirror."

Kazimierz Matan

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Man without a woman is a field full of weeds."

Kazimierz Matan

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Feminists have turned the Love Boat into the Titanic."

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Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

Simone De Beauvoir "The Second Sex"

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend."

Menander "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."

Nathaniel Hawthorne "English Notebooks"

Various

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Samuel Johnson

Law and Crime

Power and Weakness

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

Timothy Leary

Dreams and Desires

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Miss, n.: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market."

Ambrose Bierce

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born."

Khalil Gibran

Reality and Imagination

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"My mother said it was simple to keep a man: you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit."

Jerry Hall

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every woman should marry - and no man."

Benjamin Disraeli "Lothair"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."

Margaret Thatcher

Politics and Diplomacy

Woman and Man

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Anita Brookner "Hotel du Lac"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do, they might tell you something you don't want to hear."

Joseph Delaney "The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch"

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool."

Rudyard Kipling "Plain Tales from the Hills"

Wisdom and Stupidity

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Marriage is like a war. There are moments of chivalry and gallantry that attend the victorious advances and strategic retreats, the birth or death of children, the momentary conquest of loneliness, the sacrifice that ennobles him who makes it. But mostly there are the long dull sieges, the waiting, the terror and boredom. Women understand this better than men; they are better able to survive attrition."

Helen Hayes "On Reflection"

Marriage

Peace and War

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Association with women is the basis of good manners."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One cup of wine is good for a woman; two are degrading; three make her wanton; four destroy her sense of shame."

Talmud

Health and Alcohol

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

Good and Evil

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."

Margaret Atwood

Power and Weakness

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public."

Phyllis Diller

Sports

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them."

Kin Hubbard

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run."

John Barrymore

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I get little enjoyment out of women, more out of alcohol, most out of ideas."

Henry Louis Mencken "Prejudices"

Health and Alcohol

Joy and Sadness

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"One of the most difficult tasks in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money."

E. W. Howe

Richness and Money

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Walt Disney

Various

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away."

George Brossin Méré

Beauty and Ugliness

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."

Edward Dahlberg "Reasons of the Heart"

Dreams and Desires

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Beauty and Ugliness

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.86 (Number of Voters: 7)

"A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first, she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov "Uncle Vanya"

Friendship and Hostility

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A woman is a hunter without a forest."

Christina Stead

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female."

Moss Hart

Happiness

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."

John Barrymore

Beauty and Ugliness

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"When I?m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I?m near."

E.Y. Harburg "Finian's Rainbow"

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women."

Karl Kraus "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)