men women quotes

Men aren't attracted to me by my mind. They're attracted by what I
don't mind...
-- Gypsy Rose Lee

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering
squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder.

I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor

He who enters his wife's dressing room is a philosopher or a fool.
-- Balzac

It was a fine, sweet night, the nicest since my divorce, maybe the nicest
since the middle of my marriage. There was energy, softness, grace and
laughter. I even took my socks off. In my circle, that means class.
-- Andrew Bergman "The Big Kiss-off of 1944"

I managed to say, "Sorry," and no more. I knew that he disliked
me to cry.
This time he said, watching me, "On some occasions it is better
to weep."
I put my head down on the table and sobbed, "If only she could come
back; I would be nice."
Francis said, "You gave her great pleasure always."
"Oh, not enough."
"Nobody can give anybody enough."
"Not ever?"
"No, not ever. But one must go on trying."
"And doesn't one ever value people until they are gone?"
"Rarely," said Francis. I went on weeping; I saw how little I had
valued him; how little I had valued anything that was mine.
-- Pamela Frankau, "The Duchess and the Smugs"

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
-- American proverb

Hat check girl:
"Goodness! What lovely diamonds!"
Mae West:
"Goodness had nothin' to do with it, dearie."
-- "Night After Night", 1932

A man always needs to remember one thing about a beautiful woman.

Somewhere, somebody's tired of her.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre
verses of the young man she is in love with.
-- Moore

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob
a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
-- Henry Fielding, "Tom Jones"

American culture is based on the automobile, and any young man of promise
is going to own one and want to travel great distances in it. Consequently,
any young woman of aspiration should expect to spend most of her vacations
in a car, probing into unfamiliar corners. She is not required to know how
to drive but she will certainly be expected to read the road map while her
husband drives, and if she can't, or if she's abnormally slow in giving him
help, she's bound to cause trouble. Therefore, you'd think that colleges
which train the bright young women who're going to marry the bright young
men who are going to own the Cadillacs that roar back and forth across this
continent would teach the girls to read maps. None do. They teach a hundred
other useless things, but never a word about the one that will cause the
greatest friction.
-- James Michener, "Space"

I can feel for her because, although I have never been an Alaskan prostitute
dancing on the bar in a spangled dress, I still get very bored with washing
and ironing and dishwashing and cooking day after relentless day.
-- Betty MacDonald

I come from a small town whose population never changed. Each time a woman
got pregnant, someone left town.
-- Michael Prichard

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
-- Gloria Steinem

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on
believing that some men are my equals.
-- Brigid Brophy

All work and no pay makes a housewife.

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor, "Newsweek"

The happiest time of a person's life is after his first divorce.
-- J.K. Galbraith

By all means marry: If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you
get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-- Socrates