Quotations about

Men

Women hope men will change after marriage, but they don't; men hope women won't change, but they do.

—Bettina Arndt

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

—Brendan Francis

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

—Jim Bishop

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

—P.G. Wodehouse

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

—Errol Flynn

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

—Malcolm de Chazal

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

—John Henry Newman

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

—Elaine Gill

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

—Joseph Conrad

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow.

—Robert Lynd

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

—George Burns

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

—Gloria Steinem

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

—George S. Patton