Men Quotes

“If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.”

“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”

“All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.”

“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”

“A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.”

“Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.”

“The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.”

“The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.”

“A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.”

“When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.”

“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”

“Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.”

“Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.”

“Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.”

“Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.”

“Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?”

“Remember men, you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did.”

“The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.”

“The duties of an officer are the safety, honor, and welfare of your country first; the honor, welfare, and comfort of the men in your command second; and the officer s own ease, comfort, and safety last.”

“The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.”

“I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.”

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”

“Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.”

“I learned the importance of a man's chair early in life. I learned that he may love several wives, embrace several cars, be true to more than one political philosophy, and be equally committed to several careers, but he will have only one comfortable chair in his life. I learned it will be an ugly chair. It will match nothing in the entire house. It will never wear out.”

“Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.”