Men and Women Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

300 Men and Women Quotes
“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.”
Chauncey Depew Quotes
“Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.”
Candice Bergen Quotes
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.”
Maryon Pearson Quotes
“You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.”
James Matthew Barrie Quotes
“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.”
Richard Crashaw Quotes
“The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.”
Louise Kapp Howe Quotes
“My family begins with me, your family ends with you.”
Iphicrates Quotes
“Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.”
Betty Friedan Quotes
“Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.”
Sacha Guitry Quotes
“The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.”
Jean Kerr Quotes
“I hate women because they always know where things are.”
Rebecca West Quotes
“Krishna offered to the little girl mouse.. the hand of the sungod in marriage.. but instead she chose a little boy mouse.”
Srila Prabhupad Quotes
“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”
William J. Durant Quotes
“Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.”
Sarah J. Hale Quotes
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
Jane Howard Quotes
“Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.”
Edward Fox Quotes
“Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.”
Mary Buckley Quotes
“A good husband makes a good wife.”
John Florio Quotes
“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes
“The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.”
Anna Ford Quotes
“Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.”
Minna Antrim Quotes
“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”
John Berger Quotes
“Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.”
John Crowne Quotes
“Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.”
Evan Davis Quotes