Quotes about men
84 quotes from 58 people
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men. The other 999 follow women.
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
- MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing, too.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & menWomen are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & menMotherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
John Stuart Mill1806–1873The Subjection of Women (1869), Ch. 1I dont mind living in a mans world as long as I can be a woman in it.
The truth is I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962My Story (1974; co-written with Ben Hecht; 2007 edition), p. 133A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn’t.
Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Joyce Carol Oatesborn 1938On Boxing (1987)
Dorothy Parker1893–1967Enough Rope (1926) First printed in New York World, (16 August 1925)
