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Quotes About Misunderstanding

The average man is not hard to mystify.
~ Howard Thurston
Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Two Polish men at Halloween with burned faces. What happened? They were bobbing for french fries.
~ Henny Youngman
As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
~ Katie Price
I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet.
~ Claudia Schiffer
I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.
~ Annette Funicello
I'm so good and so loving that men don't believe it.
~ Brenda Fassie
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
~ Neil Sheehan
Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.
~ Paul Tournier
Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up on me.
~ Phyllis Diller
This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.
~ Phyllis Diller
In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?" He said, "because I was going up!"
~ Henny Youngman
A woman was taking a shower. There is a knock on the door. Who is it? Blind man! The woman opens the door. Where do you want these blinds, lady?
~ Henny Youngman
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
~ Honore de Balzac
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
~ John Cheever
Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't.
~ Kim Do-Jin
Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.
~ Sargent Shriver
So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."
~ Tim Vine
But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man...
~ Tone-Loc
Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
~ Will Durant
Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery