Men Quotes

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

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”

“Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.”

“Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.”

“No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.”

“The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.”

“Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.”

“A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.”

“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”

“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”

“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”

“Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.”

“I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.”

“A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.”

“The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.”

“The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.”

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

“A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.”

“The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.”

“Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.”

“Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy”

“No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.”

“A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.”

“A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.”