Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
—John Gay (1685–1732) English Poet, Dramatist
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
—Indira Gandhi (1917–84) Indian Head of State
The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American Novelist
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
—Queen Victoria (1819–1901) British Royal
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It’s possible that both are right.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women’s lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.
—Margaret Mead (1901–78) American Anthropologist, Social Psychologist
No nice men are good at getting taxis.
—Katharine Whitehorn (1928–2021) English Journalist, Writer, Columnist
He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
—Ayn Rand (1905–82) Russian-born American Novelist, Philosopher
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover—but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Men are clinging to football on a level we aren’t even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It’s our Alamo.
—Tony Kornheiser (b.1948) American Sportswriter, Host
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth – and endures all the rest.
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American Journalist, Humorist
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
—D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Critic
Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one’s likely to do anything about that.
—Golda Meir (1898–1978) Israeli Head of State
The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements – a job, a meal and a woman.
—Martin H. Fischer
The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart. He does not think beforehand that his words shall be sincere, nor that his acts shall be resolute; he simply abides in the right.
—Mencius (c.371–c.289 BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
—Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) American Cartoonist, Humorist
A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
She had believed the land was her enemy, and she struggled against it, but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it, to belong to it, to fit into its seasons and its ways.
—Louis L’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-Story Writer
Men are only as loyal as their options.
—Bill Maher (b.1956) American Comedian, TV Host, Commentator
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
—Otto Weininger (1880–1903) Austrian Philosopher
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
—Germaine Greer (b.1939) Australia Academic, Journalist, Scholar, Writer
I think we’re a kind of desperation. We’re sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we’re doing is trying to brighten up the place. That’s why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers—because males have got to try and justify their existence.
—Orson Welles (1915–85) American Film Director, Actor
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
—Germaine Greer (b.1939) Australia Academic, Journalist, Scholar, Writer
The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American Journalist, Humorist
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