Jane Austen on men

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

• Animals
• Women

Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900

• Women

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

Ian Fleming1908–1964

• Sex
• Women