Men/Women

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.

-- H. L. Mencken

Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails.

-- H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.

-- H. L. Mencken

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

-- Gloria Steinem

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

-- Gloria Steinem

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

-- Benjamin Tillett

If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

-- Jenny Weber

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

-- Mae West

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

-- Mae West

Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

-- Charlotte Whitton

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.

-- Oscar Wilde

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

-- Virginia Woolf