Quotes About Gender

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him

People won't like me for saying it but a major cause of marital problems today are men who want to remain boys, and women who want to be men.

Marriage is an institution in which a Man loses his Bachelors degree, and the Woman gets her Masters.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman - before marriage and after marriage

Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Many women remain unmarried only because they were too smart to ever marry a man dumb enough to marry them.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.