George Bernard Shaw on women

Some men see things as they are and say why⁠—I dream things that never were and say why not.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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
• Men

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

• Beauty