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Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Age
- Men
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Freedom
- Women
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I’m the only one in the room with balls.
Rita Mae Brownborn 1944
- Clever Jabs
- Women
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Rita Mae Brownborn 1944Sudden Death (1983)
- Comedy
- Men
He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.
John Buchan1875–1940The House of the Four Winds (1935), Ch. XI
- Comedy
- Women
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
Pearl S. Buck1892–1973“America’s Medieval Women,” Harper’s Magazine (August 1938)
- Freedom
- Women
Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George Burns1896–1996
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Lord Byron1788–1824She Walks in Beauty (1815)In context
- Beauty
- Women
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,
’Tis woman’s whole existence
Lord Byron1788–1824Don Juan (1819–1824), Canto the First (2 of 2)In context
Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
George Carlin1937–2008When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie1835–1919
- Men
What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.
Catullus84–54 BCLXX, lines 3–4
- Love
- Women
A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Letter to N.A. Leikin (May 8, 1895)
- Men
When a woman is ugly they always say she has beautiful hair or eyes.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act III, spoken by SoniaIn context
- Beauty
- Women
Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.
Cherborn 1946“Cher Genius”, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday (28 November 2010)
- Women