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A man’s kiss is his signature.
Mae West1893–1980
Don’t marry a man to reform him⁠—that’s what reform schools are for.
Mae West1893–1980
- Marriage
The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.
MKMargo Kaufman
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
NHNicole Hollander1939–2026Sylvia cartoon strip (pp. 212-213)
All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others.
Henny Youngman1906–1998
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016The Observer, “Sayings of the Week”, August 28, 1957
- Money
Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Age
Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.
HHippothoonOften credited to Euripides
- Marriage
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Mae West1893–1980
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
Margaret Mead1901–1978
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann’s Way (1913), “Swann in Love”
- Love
- Women
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
- Marriage
- Women
Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Women
Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), p. 91, tr. R.J. HollingdaleIn context
- Women
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 72
- Women