#Men Quotes

“She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.”

“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.”

“You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?”

“A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.”

“I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.”

“Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.”

“A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.”

“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”

“God created women only to tame men.”

“It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?”

“I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.”

“A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.”

“And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.”

“Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.”

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.”

“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.”

“When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”

“If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.”

“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

“The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.”

“How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.”

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”

“A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.”

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.”

“Men become old, but they never become good.”

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

“I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.”

“The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.”

“We women adore failures. They lean on us.”

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”

“Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.”

“My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they're really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.”

“Men in high levels of government seldom surf.”

“Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.”

“When men break up they want to remain friends. Why? Why can't they just get lost?”

“Men don't mature. Marry a younger one.”

“Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.”

“Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.”

“Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.”

“Men who drink herbal teas are seldom serial killers.”

“A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.”

“All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near them. I sleep with one under my pillow, instead of a gun.”

“Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.”

“Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.”

“My parents were glad to see that my new husband looks like a 'regular guy'-no earring or anything. But really I think a man with an earring is better prepared for marriage. I mean, he's already experienced pain and bought jewelry.”

“Most women are introspective: "Am I in love? Am I emotionally and creatively fulfilled?" Most men are outrospective: "Did my team win? How's my car?"”

“Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.”