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Quotes about Man


It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

W. Somerset Baskins

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Irwin Corey

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Jackie Rogers

Woman was God's second mistake.

Aristotle Onassis

My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses.. wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ! My wife was the VERY LAST woman to join the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses!

John C Lehman

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Denis Diderot

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

Norman Douglas

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Dame Edith Evans

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Mark Twain

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Andrea Dworkin

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Frederick Douglass

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Lenny Bruce

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Honore De Balzac

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

Benjamin Franklin

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

Linda Grant

Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Linda Bible

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Julie Burchill

In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

Robert Briffault

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it—and some of your spouse's family does too.

Matt Anonymous

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

Matt Anonymous

A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".

Matt Anonymous

It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.

Matt Anonymous

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

Matt Anonymous

Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

Johnny Anonymous

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

Honore De Balzac

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