Brownielocks and The 3 Bears
present
Quotes about men by famous women through the ages.
"Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to
be as mediocre as possible."
Margaret Mead
"If you want anything said, ask a man. If you
want anything done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher
"Behind every great man there is a surprised
woman."
Maryon Pearson
"If a man is only a little lower than the angels, the
angels should reform."
Mary Wilson Little
"As long as you know most men are like children, you
know everything."
CoCo Chanel
"A man's home may seem to be his castle from the
outside;
inside, it is more often his nursery."
Clare Booth Luce
"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the
nursery.
I insist on believing that some men are my equals."
Brigid Brophy
"Probably the only place a man can feel really secure
is a maximum security prison,
except for the imminent threat of release."
Germaine Greer
"I like men to behave like men -- strong and
childish."
Francoise Sagan
"I only like two kinds of men: Domestic and
Imported."
Mae West
"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now
and then stumbling on something witty."
Jane Austin
"If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're
boring.
If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip.
If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist."
Linda Sunshine
"The average man is more interested in a woman who is
interested in him that he is in a woman
---any woman--- with beautiful legs."
Marlene Dietrich
"Men are always ready to respect anything that bores
them."
Marilyn Monroe
"The only place men want depth in a woman is in her
decolletage."
Zsa Zsa Gabor
"Men are those creatures with two legs and eight
hands."
Jayne Mansfield
"Men are beasts, and even beasts don't behave as they
do."
Brigitte Bardot
"A gentleman is a patient wolf."
Henriett Tiarks
"Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over
you."
Mae West
"Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they
throw flowers at you.
In Argentina they throw themselves."
Marlene Dietrich
"Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I
want my children to spend their weekends with?"
Rita Rudner
"No nice men are good at getting taxis."
Katharine Whitehorn
"I never married because I have three pets at home
that answer the same purpose as a husband:
I have a dog that growls every morning;
A parrot that swears all afternoon, and
A cat that comes home late at night."
Marie Corelli
"I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband
she can forget."
Adela Rogers St. John
"It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your
entire life with just one person.
Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do
it?"
Clare Boothe Luce
"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been
admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything else
in the house."
Jean Kerr
"The trouble with some women is that they get all
excited over nothing -- and then marry him."
Cher
"A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then
he is finished."
Zsa Zsa Gabor
"If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means
always having to say everything twice. Husbands, due to an unknown quirk of the
universe, never hear you the first time."
Estelle Getty
"Before marriage a man will lay awake all night
thinking about something you said;
after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it."
Helen Rowland
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can
have.
The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
Agatha Christie
"There is so little difference between husbands, you might as well keep
the first."
Adela Rogers St. John
"Husbands are like fires. They go out if
unattended."
ZsaZsa Gabor
"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
Mae West
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to
combine marriage and a career."
Gloria Steinem
"In passing, also, I would just like to say that the
first time Adam had a chance
he laid the blame on women."
Lady Nancy Astor
"A woman needs to know but one man well to understand
all men; whereas;
a man may know all women and not understand one of them."
Helen Rowland
"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important.
The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man. One man."
Phyllis McGinley
"A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be
created by us women.
A guy is a lump, like a doughnut. So first you gotta get rid of all the stuff
his mom did to him.
And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap they pick up from beer
commercials.
And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego."
Rosanne (Barr) Arnold
"The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a
man is when he is a baby."
Natalie Wood
"Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and
political conventions
shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them
particularly unfit for the
task of government....Man's place is in the armory."
Alice Duer Miller
"If the world were a logical place, men would ride
side-saddle."
Rita Mae Brown
"If a man watches 3 football games in a row, he should
be declared legally dead."
Erma Bombeck
"The more I see of men, the more I like dogs."
Madame deStael
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the
stork."
Mae West
"A woman who strives to be like a man lacks
ambition."
Anonymous
"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well to be
though of as half as good.
Luckily, this is not difficult."
Charlotte Whitton
"Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's
in love with her."
Agatha Christie
"If it wasn't for women, men would still be hanging
from trees."
Marilyn Peterson
"Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and
lots of happy, fat women."
Marion Smith
"Women speak because they wish to speak; whereas, a
man speaks only when driven to
speech by something outside himself ----like, for instance, he can't find any
clean socks."
Jean Kerr
"One of the things being in politics has taught me is
that men are not a reasoned or
reasonable sex."
Margaret Thatcher
"Success has made failures of many men."
Cindy Adams
"Fortune does not change men. It unmasks them."
Suzanne Necker
"Beware of the man who praises women's liberation.
He's about to quit his job."
Erica Jong
"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman
should refuse an offer of marriage."
Jane Austin
"Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling
nooses closing around their necks,
even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet."
Cynthia Heimel
"If you never want to see a man again, say, "I
love you. I want to marry you.
I want to have your children." They leave skid marks!
Rita Rudner
"It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men."
Mae West
"There are only two kinds of men: The dead and the
deadly."
Helen Rowland
"Macho does not prove mucho."
ZsaZsa Gabor
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Quotes that were a bit risquè were not presented.
Source: "What
Women Say About Men - Witty Observations of the Male Species."
Andrews and McMeel University Press
Kansas City, MO © 1993
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