Dorothy Parker on men

Guns aren’t lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

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