Quotes About Misunderstanding

I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away.

Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

So... I take it that's the man in your life.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.

My mom told me she thinks a man in the market felt her up today. I asked, Where did he touch you? She said, On my knee, Bobby.

I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.

Much ado there was, God wot; He woold love, and she woold not, She sayd, "Never man was trewe;" He sayes, "None was false to you."

I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.