Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

women

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Women hold up half the sky.

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

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

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

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

I also use women as a sex object maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

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

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

I've always liked men better than women.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

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

Strong women only marry weak men.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

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

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

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

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women lie about their age men lie about their income.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

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

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

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

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

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

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

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

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.