Men and Women
52 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
tiny.ag/vsuzg5uw · submitted 1997
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.
tiny.ag/d6nssfxi · submitted 1997
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
tiny.ag/hf3tbwd4 · submitted 1997
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties.
tiny.ag/ua3yjc0t · submitted 1999
It is the ordinary women that know something about love. The gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
tiny.ag/yefighwf · submitted 1999
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
tiny.ag/t9m3smqg · submitted 1997
Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
tiny.ag/dccyeyhv · submitted 1997
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
tiny.ag/rrtq0cbj · submitted 1997
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
tiny.ag/umjestnq · submitted 1997
A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes.
tiny.ag/ndewfsya · submitted 1997
The great question -- which I have not been able to answer -- is, "What does a woman want?"
tiny.ag/rxe07t5e · submitted 1997
Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
tiny.ag/byi02vnc · submitted 1997
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
tiny.ag/4gnwlaf8 · submitted 1997
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
tiny.ag/1txkpoby · submitted 1997
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
tiny.ag/xxgha1bk · submitted 1997
Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap -- even men who hate baths.
tiny.ag/3mx96pc7 · submitted 1997
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
tiny.ag/1nyf2coi · submitted 1997
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
tiny.ag/osjwdfeg · submitted 1997
Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women
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