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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
Why didn’t you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o’ learning in that way, and you did not help me!
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Second: Maiden No More, Chapter XIIIn context
- Reading
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. Henry1862–1910Roads of Destiny (1909)
- Women
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn1907–2003
- Marriage
Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.
HHippothoonOften credited to Euripides
- Marriage
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
NHNicole Hollander1939–2026Sylvia cartoon strip (pp. 212-213)
Man has his will,⁠—but woman has her way!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 2
- Women
Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book XVIIIIn context
- Pride
The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.
MKMargo Kaufman
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1: A tough mind and a tender heart
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And⁠—which is more⁠—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936If— (1910)In context
- Character
- Time
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Ballad of East and West (1889)In context
- Courage
No side will win the Battle of the Sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
- Women
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man (1943), Ch. I