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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

Quotations about Math

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.  ~John Louis von Neumann


Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.  ~Carl Sandburg


Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.  ~Albert Einstein


Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.  ~Albert Einstein


Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.  ~Author Unknown


Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.  ~Isaac Barrow


I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.  ~Calvin Trillin


I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.  ~Stanislaw J. Lec, More Unkempt Thoughts


If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.  ~Phil Pastoret


[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.  ~Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary


"Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born;"  I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase.  I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows:  "Every moment dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is born."  I may add that the exact figures are 1.067, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre.  ~Charles Babbage, letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about a couplet in his "The Vision of Sin"


Math is radical!  ~Bumper Sticker


There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web.  They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles.  Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience.  The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.  ~Gregory Benford, Timescape


It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.  ~Author Unknown


If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.  ~Author Unknown


Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.  ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"


Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.  ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"


If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.  ~Richard Preston


Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.  ~Eric T. Bell, The Development of Mathematics


So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.  ~Francis Bacon, "Of Studies"


The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.  ~S. Gudder


The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra.  ~Author Unknown


The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.  ~Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.  ~Dean Schlicter


It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations.  It is the job of bank accountants.  ~Samuil Shchatunovski


Trigonometry is a sine of the times.  ~Author Unknown


Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.  Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.  ~W.S. Anglin


A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~Paul Erdos


Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.  ~Alfred North Whitehead


The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, "refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings," and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events.  ~Morris Kline, Mathematics in Western Culture



Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.  ~Carl Boyer, 1949, calculus textbook


The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think.  This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.  ~Eric Bell, The Search for Truth


Sometimes it is useful to know how large your zero is.  ~Author Unknown


The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.  ~Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition



Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.  ~William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs


The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.  Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.  ~Bertrand Russell


Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.  ~Gottfried Leibniz


How many times can you subtract 7 from 83, and what is left afterwards?  You can subtract it as many times as you want, and it leaves 76 every time.  ~Author Unknown


To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory.  Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts.  Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.  ~Ivars Peterson


With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.  ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value


But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.  ~Harold Marston Morse


Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.  ~Gregory Bateson


Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.  At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.  ~Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love


You may be an engineer if your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place.  ~Author Unknown


The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones.  Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way.  Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed.  Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.  ~Ronald L. Graham


We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it.  Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.  ~Mark Twain


Can you do Division?  Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?  ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass


Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.  ~Tobias Dantzig


Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.  ~Nicholas Eberstadt, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule


The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy.  Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination.  ~Thomas Hill


The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed.  Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days."  Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all.  The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that....  The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation.  Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E) temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C).  The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed....  [However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving...shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone."  A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C.  We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.  ~From Applied Optics, vol. 11, A14, 1972


I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.... ~Stendhal (Henri Beyle), The Life of Henri Brulard


As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.  ~Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity


God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically.  ~Albert Einstein


If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.  ~Paul Dirac


To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.  ~Hilda Phoebe Hudson


[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.  ~Lewis Carroll


[G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.  ~Henri PoincarĂ©


Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling.  ~Author Unknown


Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.  ~Bertrand Russell


God is real, unless declared integer.  ~Author Unknown


If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory.  ~W.S. Franklin


Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.  ~Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World


There was a young man from Trinity,
Who solved the square root of infinity.
While counting the digits,
He was seized by the fidgets,
Dropped science, and took up divinity.
~Author Unknown


One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers...  ~Heinrich Hertz


In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers.  ~Author Unknown


There are 10 types of people in this world:  those who understand binary and those who don't.  ~Author Unknown


The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.  ~Euclid


In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes.  In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.  ~Hermann Hankel


Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence.  Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting.  I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.  ~Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky


I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.  ~George Gordon, Lord Byron


Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting.  There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.  ~Ernst Mach


Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature.  Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.  ~Percy William Bridgman, The Way Things Are


A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars.  That's subtraction.  ~Mae West


I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own.  A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example.  Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants.  Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation....  ~Paul Auster, The Music of Chance