Quotations about Men

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.  ~Mae West


My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.  ~Indira Gandhi


All men are not slimy warthogs.  Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs.  But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.  ~Cynthia Heimel


If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.  ~Rita Mae Brown


The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts.  Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.  ~Harry G. Johnson


No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.  ~Knights of Pythagoras


Can you imagine a world without men?  No crime and lots of happy fat women.  ~Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander


Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other.  Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.  ~Katharine Hepburn


If it can't be fixed by duct tape or WD-40, it's a female problem.  ~Jason Love


When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.  ~Lenore Coffee


No nice men are good at getting taxis.  ~Katherine Whitehorn, the Observer, 1977


The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it.  The second time you look to see if the basement has termites.  It's the same with men.  ~Lupe Velez


Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.  It's the men who are discriminated against.  They can't bear children.  And no one's likely to do anything about that.  ~Golda Meir


Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.  ~Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines, 1960


The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.  ~Germaine Greer


All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That's his.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


I want a man who's kind and understanding.  Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?  ~Zsa Zsa Gabor


Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.  ~Francesca M. Cancian


A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.  ~Helen Rowland


When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment.  When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute.  ~Author Unknown


Men wake up aroused in the morning.  We can't help it.  We just wake up and we want you.  And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?"  It's because we can't see you.  We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.  ~Andy Rooney


It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.  ~Helen Rowland


A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.  ~Lana Turner


Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.  ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899


When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.  ~Jean Giraudoux


If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties?  How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?  ~Linda Ellerbee


They say women talk too much.  If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.  ~Clare Booth Luce


There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.  ~Camille Paglia


It's a man's world, and you men can have it.  ~Katherine Anne Porter


I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.  ~George Jean Nathan


Men were made for war.  Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.  ~Alice Thomas Ellis


Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn't get so much as a glance from me.  ~Amanda Vail


He is every other inch a gentleman.  ~Rebecca West


A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.  ~Helen Rowland


A lot of guys think the larger a woman's breasts are, the less intelligent she is.  I don't think it works like that.  I think it's the opposite.  I think the larger a woman's breasts are, the less intelligent the men become.  ~Anita Wise


Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses providing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man as twice its natural size.  ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929


It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men.  ~Mae West


Macho doesn't prove mucho.  ~Zsa Zsa Gabor


Some men have a den in their home, while others just growl all over the house.  ~Author Unknown



How can a man marry wisely in his twenties?  The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women:  a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.  ~Jerry Seinfeld


A man's home may be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.  ~Clare Booth Luce


You [men] are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from?  ~Mary Edwards Walker


Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.  ~Robert Byrne


Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.  ~William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1601


Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of.  For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women.  It's our Alamo.  ~Tony Kornheiser


Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.  ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.  ~Maureen Murphy


Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying?  The same urge that makes dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving.  ~Author Unknown


On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth.  On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.  ~Bruce Willis, on the difference between men and women


God gave us all a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time.  ~Robin Williams


Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.  ~Arthur Helps, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd, 1835


Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


What's the matter with you guys?  The sight of blonde hair knocks you three rungs down on the evolutionary ladder.  ~From the television show Civil Wars


The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements - a job, a meal and a woman.  ~Martin H. Fischer


The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.  ~Author Unknown


A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.  ~Ella Harris


A man always blames the woman who fools him.  In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.  ~Henry Louis Mencken


Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men.  It's possible that both are right.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


I like naked women.  I'm a bloke.  I'm supposed to like them.  We're born like that.  We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one.... When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook."  He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark"... The story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms.  ~Coupling, "Inferno," 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat


There are much easier things in life than finding a good man.  Nailing Jell-O to a tree, for instance.  ~Author Unknown


Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.  ~Helen Rowland


Men are like a fine wine.  They start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.  ~Author Unknown


I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.  ~Jenny Eclair


I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.  ~Mae West


Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Did you hear about the baby born with organs of both sexes?  It had a penis and a brain.  ~Author Unknown


There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Women may be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake whole relationships.  ~James Shubert


Men are only as loyal as their options.  ~Bill Maher


Stop?  I'm the guy.  I don't stop!  That's the woman's job.  We're the gas, they're the brakes.  ~Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, EDtv, 1999


Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.  ~Katharine Hepburn


Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.  ~Erica Jong


The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.  ~Helen Rowland


I'm a babe magnet... just the wrong end.  ~Author Unknown


Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.  ~Winifred Kirkland


I wonder why men get serious at all.  They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will.  If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.  ~Yoko Ono


God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent.  He gave women intuition and femininity.  And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.  ~Farrah Fawcett


Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success.  ~Jim Backus

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