The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) David Herbert Lawrence. English novelist.
I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet.
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist.
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) David Herbert Lawrence. English novelist.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.
He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) British poet and playwright.
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer.
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895) Scottish essayist, poet and novelist.
The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-?) British statewoman.
Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love.
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Men never remember, but women never forget.
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Unknown Source
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West (1892-1980) American actress and playwright.
Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
Mae West (1892-1980) American actress and playwright.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German-Swiss philosopher and writer.
Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, satirist and social critic.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, satirist and social critic.
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, satirist and social critic.
If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.
Italian proverb
The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet.
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950) American journalist and humorist.
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950) American journalist and humorist.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana (1863-1952) American philosopher and poet.
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet.
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) British statesman.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French philosopher.
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot (1819-1880) British writer.
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
George Eliot (1819-1880) British writer.
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
George Eliot (1819-1880) British writer.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George Eliot (1819-1880) British writer.
Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.
It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
Paul Géraldy (1885-1983) French poet.
Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist.
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James (1843-1916) American author.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American historian, journalist and novelist.
As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist, author of "Sense and Sensibility
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist, author of "Sense and Sensibility
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Italian poet and scholar.
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British politician, poet and critic.
There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet.
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) David Herbert Lawrence. English novelist.
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet.
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist.
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