Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ☞ Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

Some men are so macho they’ll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit. ☞ Maureen Murphy

Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying? The same urge that makes dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving. ☞ Author Unknown

What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere? ☞ Erma Bombeck

A hard man is good to find. ☞ Mae West

Men like a woman with a daring tongue. That’s a double-entendre, which reminds me they also like a ménage à trois. ☞ Carrie Latet

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 it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. ☞ Jean Kerr

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. ☞ Oscar Wilde

Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. ☞ Ellen Glasgow

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they’d never clean anything. ☞ Dave Barry

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. ☞ Ian Fleming

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. ☞ Marlene Dietrich

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that. ☞ Steve Martin

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ☞ Eric Hoffer

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ☞ Sigmund Freud

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. ☞ George Bernard Shaw

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. ☞ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mind is the most capricious of insects – flitting, fluttering. ☞ Virginia Woolf

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ☞ Arnold Bennett

Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice. ☞ Pierre Cabanis

That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. ☞ Robert T. Pirsig

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. ☞ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ☞ Astrid Alauda,

Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment. ☞ Iara Gassen

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. ☞ Cicero

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. ☞ Katherine Mansfield

Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. ☞ Franklin D. Roosevelt

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. ☞ Samuel Johnson

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else. ☞ Robert Brault

The Brain – is wider than the Sky - For – put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease – and You – beside…. The Brain is just the weight of God - For – Heft them – Pound for Pound - And they will differ – if they do - As Syllable from Sound. ☞ Emily Dickinson

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. ☞ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ☞ Latin Proverb

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. ☞ Charles Caleb Colton

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else… ☞ J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins,"

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. ☞ Euripides

Sometimes it’s harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can’t pretend you’re not at home. ☞ Linda Solegato

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. ☞ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot. ☞ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. ☞ Washington Irving,

Sometimes I suffer from indigestion of the mind. ☞ Carrie Latet

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. ☞ Charles Dickens,

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. ☞ Mark Twain

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. ☞ Horace

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. ☞ Mae West

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women. ☞ Indira Gandhi

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others. ☞ Cynthia Heimel

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. ☞ Rita Mae Brown

The rule in the women’s colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon. ☞ Harry G. Johnson

No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ☞ Knights of Pythagoras

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ☞ Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ☞ Katharine Hepburn

If it can’t be fixed by duct tape or WD-40, it’s a female problem. ☞ Jason Love

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn’t her youth he is seeking but his own. ☞ Lenore Coffee

No nice men are good at getting taxis. ☞ Katherine Whitehorn, the

The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It’s the same with men. ☞ Lupe Velez

Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one’s likely to do anything about that. ☞ Golda Meir

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,

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. ☞ Germaine Greer

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ☞ Oscar Wilde,

I want a man who’s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? ☞ Zsa Zsa Gabor

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men’s behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ☞ Francesca M. Cancian

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth – and endures all the rest. ☞ Helen Rowland

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute. ☞ Author Unknown

Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can’t help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It’s because we can’t see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve. ☞ Andy Rooney

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ☞ Helen Rowland

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. ☞ Lana Turner

Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ☞ Oscar Wilde,

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. ☞ Jean Giraudoux

If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? ☞ Linda Ellerbee

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ☞ Clare Booth Luce

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. ☞ Camille Paglia

It’s a man’s world, and you men can have it. ☞ Katherine Anne Porter

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don’t know one who wouldn’t fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. ☞ George Jean Nathan

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. ☞ Alice Thomas Ellis

Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn’t get so much as a glance from me. ☞ Amanda Vail

He is every other inch a gentleman. ☞ Rebecca West

A man’s heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant. ☞ Helen Rowland

A lot of guys think the larger a woman’s breasts are, the less intelligent she is. I don’t think it works like that. I think it’s the opposite. I think the larger a woman’s breasts are, the less intelligent the men become. ☞ Anita Wise

On the one hand, we’ll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. ☞ Bruce Willis

God gave us all a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time. ☞ Robin Williams

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. ☞ Arthur Helps,

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,

What’s the matter with you guys? The sight of blonde hair knocks you three rungs down on the evolutionary ladder. ☞ From the television show

The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements – a job, a meal and a woman. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys. ☞ Author Unknown

A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job. ☞ Ella Harris

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ☞ Henry Louis Mencken

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It’s possible that both are right. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,

I like naked women. I’m a bloke. I’m supposed to like them. We’re born like that. We like naked women as soon as we’re pulled out of one…. When man invented fire, he didn’t say, "Hey, let’s cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark"… The story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. ☞ Coupling

There are much easier things in life than finding a good man. Nailing Jell-O to a tree, for instance. ☞ Author Unknown

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. ☞ Helen Rowland

Men are like a fine wine. They start out like grapes, and it’s our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you’d like to have dinner with. ☞ Author Unknown

I can eat a man, but I’m not sure of the fiber content. ☞ Jenny Eclair

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. ☞ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you. ☞ Mae West