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94% of the women in America are beautiful and the rest hang out around here.
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A bachelor is a man who never made the same mistake once.
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A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out
of a divorce.
                -- Don Quinn
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A bachelor is an unaltared male.
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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty
and a boy for ever.
                -- Helen Rowland
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A bad marriage is like a horse with a broken leg, you can shoot
the horse, but it don't fix the leg.
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A beautiful man is paradise for the eyes, hell for the soul, and
purgatory for the purse.
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A beautiful woman is a blessing from Heaven, but a good cigar is a smoke.
                -- Kipling
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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
                -- Emerson
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance
of turning around three times before lying down.
                -- Robert Benchley
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A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed.
                -- John Steinbeck
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A Chicago salesman was about to check into a St. Louis hotel when he noticed
a very charming woman staring admiringly at him.  He walked over and spoke
with her for a few minutes, then returned to the front desk, where they checked
in as Mr. and Mrs.
        After a very pleasurable three-day stay, the man approached the front
desk and told the clerk he was checking out.  In a few minutes, he was handed
a bill for $2500.
        "There must be some mistake," the salesman said.  "I've been here for
only three days."
        "Yes, sir," the clerk replied.  "But your wife has been here a month
and a half."
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A Code of Honour: never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief
as your goal.  There are too many women in the world to justify that sort of
dishonourable behaviour.  Unless she's really attractive.
                -- Bruce J. Friedman, "Sex and the Lonely Guy"
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A diplomat is man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
                -- Robert Frost
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A diplomatic husband said to his wife, "How do you expect me to remember
your birthday when you never look any older?"
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        A domineering man married a mere wisp of a girl.  He came back from
his honeymoon a chastened man.  He'd become aware of the will of the wisp.
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A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.
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A flashy Mercedes-Benz roared up to the curb where a cute young miss stood
waiting for a taxi.
        "Hi," said the gentleman at the wheel.  "I'm going west."
        "How wonderful," came the cool reply.  "Bring me back an orange."
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A fool and his honey are soon parted.
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A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
                -- Ruth Weston
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A gentleman is a man who wouldn't hit a lady with his hat on.
                -- Evan Esar
                [ And why not?  For why does she have his hat on?  Ed.]
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A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on.
                -- Fred Allen
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A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident.
A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident.
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid -- *_\b_\b_\b_\bthat _\b_\b_\bhad
_\b_\bto _\b_\b_\b_\bmean _\b_\b_\b_\b_\b_\b_\b_\b_\bsomething*.
                -- S. Morganstern, "The Silent Gondoliers"
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A girl with a future avoids the man with a past.
                -- Evan Esar, "The Humor of Humor"
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A girl's best friend is her mutter.
                -- Dorothy Parker
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A girl's conscience doesn't really keep her from doing anything wrong--
it merely keeps her from enjoying it.
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A good man always knows his limitations.
                -- Harry Callahan
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and deaf husband.
                -- Michel de Montaigne
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A guy has to get fresh once in a while so a girl doesn't lose her confidence.
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A hammer sometimes misses its mark - a bouquet never.
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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
                -- Helen Rowland
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A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.
                -- Lillian Day
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A man always needs to remember one thing about a beautiful woman.

Somewhere, somebody's tired of her.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after
that begins to bunch them.
                -- Mencken
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A man arrived home early to find his wife in the arms of his best friend,
who swore how much they were in love.  To quiet the enraged husband, the
lover suggested, "Friends shouldn't fight, let's play gin rummy.  If I win,
you get a divorce so I can marry her.  If you win, I promise never to see
her again.  Okay?"

"Alright," agreed the husband.  "But how about a quarter a point
on the side to make it interesting?"
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A man can have two, maybe three love affairs while he's married.  After
that it's cheating.
                -- Yves Montand
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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
                -- Du Bois
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A man in love is incomplete until he is married.  Then he is finished.
                -- Zsa Zsa Gabor, "Newsweek"
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
                -- Brendan Francis
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A man is like a rusty wheel on a rusty cart,
He sings his song as he rattles along and then he falls apart.
                -- Richard Thompson
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
                -- Samuel Johnson
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A man may sometimes be forgiven the kiss to which he is not entitled,
but never the kiss he has not the initiative to claim.
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A man sank into the psychiatrist's couch and said, "I have a
terrible problem, Doctor.  I have a son at Harvard and another son at
Princeton; I've just gifted each of them with a new Ferrari; I've got
homes in Beverly Hills, Palm Beach, and a co-op in New York; and I've
got a thriving ranch in Venezuela.  My wife is a gorgeous young actress
who considers my two mistresses to be her best friends."
        The psychiatrist looked at the patient, confused.  "Did I miss
something?  It sounds to me like you have no problems at all."
        "But, Doctor, I only make $175 a week."
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A man took his wife deer hunting for the first time.  After he'd given her
some basic instructions, they agreed to separate and rendezvous later.  Before
he left, he warned her if she should fell a deer to be wary of hunters who
might beat her to the carcass and claim the kill.  If that happened, he told
her, she should fire her gun three times into the air and he would come to
her aid.
        Shortly after they separated, he heard a single shot, followed quickly
by the agreed upon signal.  Running to the scene, he found his wife standing
in a small clearing with a very nervous man staring down her gun barrel.
        "He claims this is his," she said, obviously very upset.
        "She can keep it, she can keep it!" the wide-eyed man replied.  "I
just want to get my saddle back!"
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A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions
he is able to answer.
                -- Ronald Colman
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A man was griping to his friend about how he hated to go home after a
late card games.
        "You wouldn't believe what I go through to avoid waking my wife,"
he said.  "First, I kill the engine a block away from the house and coast
into the garage.  Then I open the door slowly, take off my shoes, and
tiptoe to our room.  But just as I'm about to slide into bed, she always
wakes up and gives me hell."
        "I make a big racket when I go home," his friend replied.
        "You do?"
        "Sure.  I honk the horn, slam the door, turn on all the lights,
stomp up to the bedroom and give my wife a big kiss.  `Hi, Alice,' I say.
`How about a little smooch for your old man?'"
        "And what does she say?" his friend asked in disbelief.
        "She doesn't say anything," his buddy replied.  "She always pretends
she's asleep."
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A man was kneeling by a grave in a cemetery, crying and praying very loudly,
        "Oh why..eeeee did you die...eeeeee, Oh Why..eeeeee,
why did you Di......eeee"
The caretaker walks up, pardons himself and asks politely,
        "Excuse me, sir, but I've been seeing you for hours now,
carrying on at this grave.  You must have been very close to the deceased."
        "No, I never met him.  Oh why....eeeee did you dieeeeee,
why....eeeee did you.."
        "Sir, you say you never met this person, yet you carry on so?
Tell, me who is buried here?"
        "My wife's first husband."
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A man was talking to his best friend about his married life.  "You know," he
says, "I really trust my wife, and I think she has always been faithful to
me, but there's *always* that doubt.  There's *always* that little doubt."
        "Yeah, I know what you mean," his friend replies.
        "Well, buddy, I've got to leave on a business trip this weekend,
and I wonder... well... would you watch my house while I'm gone?  I trust
her, it's just that there's *always* that doubt."
        The friend agreed to help out and two weeks later gave his report.
        "I've got some bad news for you," says the friend.  "The evening
after you left I saw a strange car pull up in front of your house.  A man
got out of the car and went in the house and had dinner with your wife.
After dinner they went upstairs and I saw your wife kissing him.  Then, he
took off his shirt and she took off her blouse.  And then the light went
out."
        "*Then* what happened?" said the husband, his eyes opening wide.
        "Well, I don't know," replied the friend, "it was too dark to see."
        "Damn!" roared the husband.  "You see what I mean?  There's *always*
that doubt!"
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A man without a woman is like a statue without pigeons.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
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A man's gotta know his limitations.
                -- Clint Eastwood, "Dirty Harry"
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object
in the whole creation.
                -- Goldsmith
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman
makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
                -- Frost
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A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
                -- Gloria Steinem
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A pretty woman can do anything; an ugly woman must do everything.
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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions
your wife asks you for nothing.
                -- Joey Adams
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        A pushy romeo asked a gorgeous elevator operator, "Don't all these
stops and starts get you pretty worn out?"  "It isn't the stops and starts
that get on my nerves, it's the jerks."
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A real gentleman never takes bases unless he really has to.
                -- Overheard in an algebra lecture.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who
demanded, "Was she not chaste?  Was she not fair?  Was she not fruitful?"
holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made.
Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me.
                -- Plutarch
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A sharper perspective on this matter is particularly important to feminist
thought today, because a major tendency in feminism has constructed the
problem of domination as a drama of female vulnerability victimized by male
aggression.  Even the more sophisticated feminist thinkers frequently shy
away from the analysis of submission, for fear that in admitting woman's
participation in the relationship of domination, the onus of responsibility
will appear to shift from men to women, and the moral victory from women to
men.  More generally, this has been a weakness of radical politics: to
idealize the oppressed, as if their politics and culture were untouched by
the system of domination, as if people did not participate in their own
submission.  To reduce domination to a simple relation of doer and done-to
is to substitute moral outrage for analysis.
                -- Jessica Benjamin, "The Bonds of Love"
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A sociologist, a psychologist, and a engineer were discussing the
consequences and implications of a married man's having a mistress.  The
sociologist's opinion was that it is absolutely and categorically unforgivable
for a married man to forfeit the bond of matrimony, and engage in such lowly
and lustful pursuits.
        The psychologist's opinion was that although morally reprehensible,
if a man MUST have a mistress to achieve his full potential as a human being,
then -- well -- he may go ahead and choose to have a mistress, as long as he
is considerate enough to keep this secret from his wife.
        The engineer then interjected: "I also believe that, if necessary,
a married man is entitled to a mistress.  However, I do not see why the
affair should be concealed from the wife.  On the contrary, if the affair
is out in the open, then on Friday evenings he may tell his wife that he
is going to see his mistress, tell his mistress that he is going to be with
his wife, then go to his office and get some work done!"
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A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there
*for the rest of your life*.
                -- Jim Samuels
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A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it
were quite a struggle.
                -- Edna Ferber
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A woman can never be too rich or too thin.
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A woman did what a woman had to, the best way she knew how.
To do more was impossible, to do less, unthinkable.
                -- Dirisha, "The Man Who Never Missed"
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A woman forgives the audacity of which her beauty has prompted us to be guilty.
                -- LeSage
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A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be
thankful for a good one.
                -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
                -- Chamfort
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure,
it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
                -- Nietzsche
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times
over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of
pride -- for the opening or the shutting of a door.
                -- Stendhal
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A woman shouldn't have to buy her own perfume.
                -- Maurine Lewis
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
                -- Gloria Steinem
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Therefore, a man without a woman is like a bicycle without a fish.
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A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
                -- Clare Booth Luce, quoted in "The Wit of Women"
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A woman's place is in the house... and in the Senate.
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A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything,
should conceal it as well as she can.
                -- Jane Austen
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        A young husband with an inferiority complex insisted he was just a
little pebble on the beach.  The marriage counselor told him, "If you wish to
save your marriage, you'd better be a little boulder."
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A young man and his girlfriend were walking along Main Street when she spotted
a beautiful diamond ring in a jewelry-store window.  "Wow, I'd sure love to
have that!" she gushed.
        "No problem," her companion replied, throwing a brick through the
window and grabbing the ring.
        A few blocks later, the woman admired a full-length sable coat.  "What
I'd give to own that," she said, sighing.
        "No problem," he said, throwing a brick through the window and grabbing
the coat.
        Finally, turning for home, they passed a car dealership.  "Boy, I'd do
anything for one of those Rolls-Royces," she said.
        "Jeez, baby," the guy moaned, "you think I'm made of bricks?"
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A young man enters the New York branch of Tiffany's on a Friday evening and
walks up to a display case full of pearl necklaces.  He turns to a gorgeous
woman, who is obviously windowshopping, looks her straight in the eye and
says, "I can tell by your eyes that you really want that necklace.  If you'll
allow me, I'd like to buy it for you."
        The woman looks him up and down; he's wearing a nice suit and some
pretty nice jewelry, but she has trouble believing this story.
        "Look, this is some kind of put on, right?"
        "No, really.  You see, I've got quite a lot of money -- so much that
I could never spend it all.  I'd really like for you to have it."
        The guys whips out his checkbook, writes a check for five figures,
calls over a clerk and hands it to him.  The clerk peers at the check, looks
at the young man, looks at the check again.  "Very good, sir.  I'm afraid I
can't release the necklace immediately, would Monday be all right?"
        "That'll be fine, she'll pick it up." the man replies, and walks out
of the store with the woman following him in a daze.
        The next Monday the man comes back in and walks up to the counter.
The same clerk hurries over to him and says, "Sir, I'm sorry to have to tell
you this, but your check was returned for insufficient funds."
        "I know," the man replies.  "I just wanted to thank you for a
terrific weekend."
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You brute!  Knock before entering a ladies room!
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Ain't nothin' an old man can do for me but bring me a message from a young man.
                -- Moms Mabley
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Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them
continues to pay for it.
                -- Peggy Joyce
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Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
                -- Arthur Baer
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Alimony is the curse of the writing classes.
                -- Norman Mailer
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All heiresses are beautiful.
                -- John Dryden
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All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell
them apart.
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All most men really want in life is a wife, a house, two kids and a car,
a cat, no maybe a dog.  Ummm, scratch one of the kids and add a dog.
Definitely a dog.
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All the men on my staff can type.
                -- Bella Abzug
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All work and no pay makes a housewife.
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American culture is based on the automobile, and any young man of promise
is going to own one and want to travel great distances in it.  Consequently,
any young woman of aspiration should expect to spend most of her vacations
in a car, probing into unfamiliar corners.  She is not required to know how
to drive but she will certainly be expected to read the road map while her
husband drives, and if she can't, or if she's abnormally slow in giving him
help, she's bound to cause trouble.  Therefore, you'd think that colleges
which train the bright young women who're going to marry the bright young
men who are going to own the Cadillacs that roar back and forth across this
continent would teach the girls to read maps.  None do. They teach a hundred
other useless things, but never a word about the one that will cause the
greatest friction.
                -- James Michener, "Space"
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        An airplane pilot got engaged to two very pretty women at the same
time.  One was named Edith; the other named Kate.  They met, discovered they
had the same fiancee, and told him.  "Get out of our lives you rascal.  We'll
teach you that you can't have your Kate and Edith, too."
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An optimist is a man who looks forward to marriage.
A pessimist is a married optimist.
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"And what do you two think you are doing?!" roared the husband, as he came
upon his wife in bed with another man.  The wife turned and smiled at her
companion.

"See?" she said.  "I told you he was stupid!"
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And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to
have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon
the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let
loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price:
in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest
license of a child, and yet been man enough to know its value.
                -- Charles Dickens
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Another greeting card category consists of those persons who send out
photographs of their families every year.  In the same mail that brought the
greetings from Marcia and Philip, my friend found such a conversation piece.
"My God, Lida is enormous!" she exclaimed.  I don't know why women want to
record each year, for two or three hundred people to see, the ravages wrought
upon them, their mates, and their progeny by the artillery of time, but
between five and seven per cent of Christmas cards, at a rough estimate, are
family groups, and even the most charitable recipient studies them for little
signs of dissolution or derangement.  Nothing cheers a woman more, I am afraid,
than the proof that another woman is letting herself go, or has lost control
of her figure, or is clearly driving her husband crazy, or is obviously
drinking more than is good for her, or still doesn't know what to wear.
Middle-aged husbands in such photographs are often described as looking
"young enough to be her son," but they don't always escape so easily, and a
couple opening envelopes in the season of mercy and good will sometimes handle
a male friend or acquaintance rather sharply.  "Good Lord!" the wife will say.
"Frank looks like a sex-crazed shotgun slayer, doesn't he?"  "Not to me," the
husband may reply.  "to me he looks more like a Wilkes-Barre dentist who is
being sought by the police in connection with the disappearance of a choir
singer."
                -- James Thurber, "Merry Christmas"
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Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
                -- Hedy Lamarr
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Any woman is a volume if one knows how to read her.
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Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
                -- Groucho Marx
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        "Anything else, sir?" asked the attentive bellhop, trying his best
to make the lady and gentleman comfortable in their penthouse suite in the
posh hotel.
        "No.  No, thank you," replied the gentleman.
        "Anything for your wife, sir?" the bellhop asked.
        "Why, yes, young man," said the gentleman.  "Would you bring me a
postcard?"
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and
considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless,
a separation.
                -- Lord Chesterfield, letter to his son, 1763
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Asked how she felt being the first woman to make a major-league team, she
said, "Like a pig in mud," or words to that effect, and then turned and
released a squirt of tobacco juice from the wad of rum soaked plug in her
right cheek.  She chewed a rare brand of plug called Stuff It, which she
learned to chew when she was playing Nicaraguan summer ball.  She told the
writers, "They were so mean to me down there you couldn't write it in your
newspaper.  I took a gun everywhere I went, even to bed.  *Especially* to
bed.  Guys were after me like you can't believe.  That's when I started
chewing tobacco -- because no matter how bad anybody treats you, it's not
as bad as this.  This is the worst chew in the world.  After this,
everything else is peaches and cream."  The writers elected Gentleman Jim,
the Sparrow's P.R. guy, to bite off a chunk and tell them how it tasted,
and as he sat and chewed it tears ran down his old sunburnt cheeks and he
couldn't talk for a while. Then he whispered, "You've been chewing this for
two years?  God, I had no idea it was so hard to be a woman."
                -- Garrison Keillor
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At last I've found the girl of my dreams.  Last night she said to me,
"Once more, Strange, and this time *I'll* be Donnie and *you* be Marie.
                -- Strange de Jim
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Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
                -- Nicolas Chamfort
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Basically my wife was immature.  I'd be at home in the bath and she'd
come in and sink my boats.
                -- Woody Allen
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Be circumspect in your liaisons with women.  It is better to be seen at
the opera with a man than at mass with a woman.
                -- De Maintenon
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Be prepared to accept sacrifices.  Vestal virgins aren't all that bad.
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Beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
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Beauty, brains, availability, personality; pick any two.
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Before marriage the three little words are "I love you," after marriage
they are "Let's eat out."
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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman with nothing to wear.
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Being asked solicitously about the state of her health was becoming bothersome
to the pregnant woman at the cocktail party.  And yet another guest went over
and inquired, "Well, how are you feeling these days?"
        "Not too well," said the expectant mother.  "You know, I've missed
seven or eight periods now and it's beginning to worry me."
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Being owned by someone used to be called slavery -- now it's called commitment.
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Benny Hill:     Would you like a peanut?
Girl:           No, thank you, I don't want to be under obligation.
Benny Hill:     You won't be under obligation for a peanut.
                It's not as if it were a chocolate bar or something.
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Bigamy is having one spouse too many.  Monogamy is the same.
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Birds and bees have as much to do with the facts of life as black
nightgowns do with keeping warm.
                -- Hester Mundis, "Powermom"
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least
when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
                -- James Thurber
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
                -- Kin Hubbard
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Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both.
                -- Samuel Butler
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By all means marry: If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you
get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
                -- Socrates
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Changing husbands/wives is only changing troubles.
                -- Kathleen Norris
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Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she
were a man.
                -- Joubert
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Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
                -- William Congreve
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Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the
opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
                -- Oliver Herford
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Dear Miss Manners:
I carry a big black umbrella, even if there's just a thirty percent chance of
rain.  May I ask a young lady who is a stranger to me to share its protection?
This morning, I was waiting for a bus in comparative comfort, my umbrella
protecting me from the downpour, and noticed an attractive young woman getting
soaked.  I have often seen her at my bus stop, although we have never spoken,
and I don't even know her name.  Could I have asked her to get under my
umbrella without seeming insulting?

Gentle Reader:
Certainly.  Consideration for those less fortunate than you is always proper,
although it would be more convincing if you stopped babbling about how
attractive she is.  In order not to give Good Samaritanism a bad name, Miss
Manners asks you to allow her two or three rainy days of unmolested protection
before making your attack.
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Dear Miss Manners:
Please list some tactful ways of removing a man's saliva from your face.

Gentle Reader:
Please list some decent ways of acquiring a man's saliva on your face. If
the gentleman sprayed you inadvertently to accompany enthusiastic
discourse, you may step back two paces, bring out your handkerchief, and
go through the motions of wiping your nose, while trailing the cloth along
your face to pick up whatever needs mopping along the route.  If, however,
the substance was acquired as a result of enthusiasm of a more intimate
nature, you may delicately retrieve it with a flick of your pink tongue.
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Do not permit a woman to ask forgiveness, for that is only the first
step.  The second is justification of herself by accusation of you.
                -- DeGourmont
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Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long
together if ever we had been married?
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Don't assume that every sad-eyed woman has loved and lost -- she may
have got him.
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Don't know what time I'll be back, Mom.  Probably soon after she throws me out.
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Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
                -- Scottish Proverb
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Dull women have immaculate homes.
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        During a visit to America, Winston Churchill was invited to a buffet
luncheon at which cold fried chicken was served.  Returning for a second
helping, he asked politely, "May I have some breast?"
        "Mr. Churchill," replied the hostess, "in this country we ask for
white meat or dark meat."  Churchill apologized profusely.
        The following morning, the lady received a magnificent orchid from
her guest of honor.  The accompanying card read: "I would be most obliged if
you would pin this on your white meat."
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Economists are still trying to figure out why the girls with the least
principle draw the most interest.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America.  The rest cheat in Europe.
                -- Jackie Mason
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... eighty years later he could still recall with the young pang of his
original joy his falling in love with Ada.
                -- Nabokov
%
        Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant
professor; equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a
male schlemiel.
                -- Ewald Nyquist
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        Eugene d'Albert, a noted German composer, was married six times.
At an evening reception which he attended with his fifth wife shortly
after their wedding, he presented the lady to a friend who said politely,
"Congratulations, Herr d'Albert; you have rarely introduced me to so
charming a wife."
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"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling
just a bit unchivalrous ..."
                -- Robert Benchley
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Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself,
and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
                -- Barrie
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Everybody is given the same amount of hormones, at birth, and
if you want to use yours for growing hair, that's fine with me.
%
Farmers in the Iowa State survey rated machinery breakdowns more
stressful than divorce.
                -- Wall Street Journal
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Feminists just want the human race to be a tie.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity, no really
self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
                -- George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull's Other Island"
%
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
                -- Helen Rowland
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For a young man, not yet: for an old man, never at all.
                -- Diogenes, asked when a man should marry

When should a man marry?  A young man, not yet; an elder man, not at all.
                -- Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Marriage and Single Life"
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For a young man, not yet: for an old man, never at all.
                -- Diogenes, asked when a man should marry

When should a man marry?  A young man, not yet; an elder man, not at all.
                -- Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Marriage and Single Life"
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For I swore I would stay a year away from her; out and alas!
but with break of day I went to make supplication.
                -- Paulus Silentiarius, c. 540 A.D.
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For thirty years a certain man went to spend every evening with Mme. ___.
When his wife died his friends believed he would marry her, and urged
him to do so.  "No, no," he said: "if I did, where should I have to
spend my evenings?"
                -- Chamfort
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Fortunate is he for whom the belle toils.
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:        #14

Low Blows:
        Let's say a man and woman are watching a boxing match on TV.  One
of the boxers is felled by a low blow.  The woman says "Oh, gee.  That must
hurt." The man doubles over and actually FEELS the pain.

Dressing Up:
        A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the
garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail.   A man will dress up
for: weddings, funerals.  Speaking of weddings, when reminiscing about
weddings, women talk about "the ceremony".  Men laugh about "the bachelor
party".

David Letterman:
        Men think David Letterman is the funniest man on the face of the
Earth.  Women think he is a mean, semi-dorky guy who always has a bad haircut.
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:        #16

Relationships:
        First of all, a man does not call a relationship a relationship -- he
refers to it as "that time when me and Suzie were doing it on a semi-regular
basis".
        When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to
her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots".  Then
she will get on with her life.
        A man has a little more trouble letting go.  Six months after the
breakup, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, "I just
wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never forgive you, and I
hate you, and you're a total floozy.  But I want you to know that there's
always a chance for us".  This is known as the "I Hate You / I Love You"
drunken phone call, that 99% if all men have made at least once.  There are
community colleges that offer courses to help men get over this need; alas,
these classes rarely prove effective.
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:        #17

Shoes:
         The average man has 4 pairs of footwear: running shoes, dress shoes,
boots, and slippers.  The average woman has shoes 4 layers thick on the floor
of her closet.  Most of them hurt her feet.

Making friends:
         A woman will meet another woman with common interests, do a few things
together, and say something like, "I hope we can be good friends."
        A man will meet another man with common interests, do a few things
together, and say nothing.  After years of interacting with this other man,
sharing hopes and fears that he wouldn't confide in his priest or
psychiatrist, he'll finally let down his guard in a fit of drunken
sentimentality and say something like, "You know, for someone who's such a
jerk, I guess you're OK."
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:        #2

Desserts:
        A woman will generally admire an ornate dessert for the artistic
work it is, praising its creator and waiting a suitable interval before
she reluctantly takes a small sliver off one edge.  A man will start by
grabbing the cherry in the center.

Car repair:
        The average man thinks his Y chromosome contains complete repair
manuals for every car made since World War II.  He will work on a problem
himself until it either goes away or turns into something that "can't be
fixed without special tools".
        The average woman thinks "that funny thump-thump noise" is an
accurate description of an automotive problem.  She will, however, have the
car serviced at the proper intervals and thereby incur fewer problems than
the average man.
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:        #4

Clothes:
        Men don't discard clothes.  The average man still has the gym shirt
he wore in high school.  He thinks a jacket is "just getting broken in" about
the time it develops holes in the elbows.  A man will let new shirts sit on
the shelf in their original packaging for a couple of years before putting
them to use, hoping they'll become more comfortable with age.
        Women think clothes are radioactive, with a half-life of one year.
They exercise precautions to avoid contamination by last year's fashions.
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:        #5

Trust:
        The average woman would really like to be told if her mate is fooling
around behind her back.  This same woman wouldn't tell her best friend if
she knew the best friends' mate was having an affair.  She'll tell all her
OTHER friends, however.  The average man won't say anything if he knows that
one of his friend's mates is fooling around, and he'd rather not know if
his mate is having an affair either, out of fear that it might be with one
of his friends.  He will tell all his friends about his own affairs, though,
so they can be ready if he needs an alibi.

Driving:
        A typical man thinks he's Mario Andretti as soon as he slips behind
the wheel of his car.  The fact that it's an 8-year-old Honda doesn't keep
him from trying to out-accelerate the guy in the Porsche who's attempting
to cut him off; freeway on-ramps are exciting challenges to see who has The
Right Stuff on the morning commute.  Does he or doesn't he?  Only his body
shop knows for sure.  Insurance companies understand this behavior, and
price their policies accordingly.
        A woman will slow down to let a car merge in front of her, and get
rear-ended by another woman who was busy adding the finishing touches to
her makeup.
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:        #6

Bathrooms:
        A man has six items in his bathroom -- a toothbrush, toothpaste,
shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437.  A man
would not be able to identify most of these items.

Groceries:
        A woman makes a list of things she needs and then goes to the store
and buys these things.  A man waits 'til the only items left in his fridge
are half a lime and a Blue Ribbon.  Then he goes grocery shopping.  He buys
everything that looks good.  By the time a man reaches the checkout counter,
his cart is packed tighter that the Clampett's car on Beverly Hillbillies.
Of course, this will not stop him from entering the 10-items-or-less lane.
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:        #8

Going Out:
        When a man says he is ready to go out, it means he is ready to go
out.  When a woman says she is ready to go out, it means she WILL be ready
to go out, as soon as she finds her earring, finishes putting on her makeup,
checks on the kids, makes a phone call to her best friend...

Cats:
        Women love cats.  Men say they love cats, but when women aren't
looking, men kick cats.

Offspring:
        Ah, children.  A woman knows all about her children.  She knows
about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends
and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams.  Men are vaguely
aware of some short people living in the house.
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:        #9

Laundry:
        Women do laundry every couple of days.  A man will wear every article
of clothing he owns, including his surgical pants that were hip about eight
years ago, before he will do his laundry.  When he is finally out of clothes,
he will wear a dirty sweatshirt inside out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain
of clothes to the laundromat.  Men always expect to meet beautiful women at
the laundromat.  This is a myth.

Nicknames:
        If Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah and Michelle get together for lunch,
they will call each other Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah and Michelle.  But if
Mike, Dave, Rob and Jack go out for a brewsky, they will affectionately
refer to each other as Bullet-Head, Godzilla, Peanut Brain and Useless.

Socks:
        Men wear sensible socks.  They wear standard white sweatsocks.
Women wear strange socks.  They are cut way below the ankles, have pictures
of clouds on them, and have a big fuzzy ball on the back.
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        Fred noticed his roommate had a black eye upon returning from a dance.
"What happened?"
        "I was struck by the beauty of the place."
%
        Friends were surprised, indeed, when Frank and Jennifer broke their
engagement, but Frank had a ready explanation: "Would you marry someone who
was habitually unfaithful, who lied at every turn, who was selfish and lazy
and sarcastic?"
        "Of course not," said a sympathetic friend.
        "Well," retorted Frank, "neither would Jennifer."
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                                FROM THE DESK OF
                                Rapunzel

Dear Prince:

        Use ladder tonight -- you're splitting my ends.
%
Genuine happiness is when a wife sees a double chin on her husband's
old girl friend.
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                        -- Gifts for Men --

Men are amused by almost any idiot thing -- that is why professional ice
hockey is so popular -- so buying gifts for them is easy.  But you should
never buy them clothes.  Men believe they already have all the clothes they
will ever need, and new ones make them nervous.  For example, your average
man has 84 ties, but he wears, at most, only three of them.  He has learned,
through humiliating trial and error, that if he wears any of the other 81
ties, his wife will probably laugh at him ("You're not going to wear THAT
tie with that suit, are you?"). So he has narrowed it down to three safe
ties, and has gone several years without being laughed at.  If you give him
a new tie, he will pretend to like it, but deep inside he will hate you.

If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires.  More than
once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires.
                -- Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"
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Girls are better looking in snowstorms.
                -- Archie Goodwin
%
Girls marry for love.  Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that
causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear
properties.
                -- Ashley Montagu
%
Girls really do know just what they want -- you to figure it out for yourself!
%
Girls who throw themselves at men, are actually taking very careful aim.
%
Give a woman an inch and she'll park a car in it.
%
God created a few perfect heads.  The rest he covered with hair.
%
God created woman.  And boredom did indeed cease from that moment --
but many other things ceased as well.  Woman was God's second mistake.
                -- Nietzsche
%
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
%
Harold had never wanted a woman so much in his life, upon overhearing the
22-year-old beauty remark that he was too old and out of shape for her.  The
determined septuagenarian immediately embarked upon a rigorous self-improvement
program.  He had his face lifted, bought a toupee, ran five miles every day,
lifted weights and adopted a strict vegetarian diet.  Within months, the
rejuvenated man won the young woman's heart, and she agreed to marry him.
        On the way out of the chapel, however, Harold was fatally struck
by lightning.  Furious, he confronted Saint Peter at the pearly gates.  "How
could you do this to me after all the pain I went through?"
        "To be honest, Harold," Saint Peter sheepishly replied, "I didn't
recognize you."
%
Hat check girl:
        "Goodness!  What lovely diamonds!"
Mae West:
        "Goodness had nothin' to do with it, dearie."
                -- "Night After Night", 1932
%
Having a baby isn't so bad.  If you're a female Emperor penguin in the
Antarctic.  She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off
for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats.  For two months, the
father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing
the egg on his feet.  After the little penguin is hatched, the mother
sees fit to come home.
                -- L. M. Boyd, "Austin American-Statesman"
%
He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.
%
He who enters his wife's dressing room is a philosopher or a fool.
                -- Balzac
%
He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the
night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his
senses until the day of judgement.
                -- Saadi
%
Hey, Jim, it's me, Susie Lillis from the laundromat.  You said you were
gonna call and it's been two weeks.  What's wrong, you lose my number?
%
High heels are a device invented by a woman who was tired of being kissed
on the forehead.
%
Him:    "Your skin is so soft.  Are you a model?"
Her:    "No,"  [blush]  "I'm a cosmetologist."
Him:    "Really? That's incredible... It must be very tough to handle
        weightlessness."
                -- "The Jerk"
%
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob
a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
                -- Henry Fielding, "Tom Jones"
%
"Home, Sweet Home" must surely have been written by a bachelor.
                -- Samuel Butler
%
Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre
verses of the young man she is in love with.
                -- Moore
%
How much for your women?  I want to buy your daughter... how much for
the little girl?
                -- Jake Blues, "The Blues Brothers"
%
        "How would I know if I believe in love at first sight?" the sexy
social climber said to her roommate.  "I mean, I've never seen a Porsche
full of money before."
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I am very fond of the company of ladies.  I like their beauty,
I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
                -- Samuel Johnson
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I began many years ago, as so many young men do, in searching for the
perfect woman.  I believed that if I looked long enough, and hard enough,
I would find her and then I would be secure for life.  Well, the years
and romances came and went, and I eventually ended up settling for someone
a lot less than my idea of perfection.  But one day, after many years
together, I lay there on our bed recovering from a slight illness.  My
wife was sitting on a chair next to the bed, humming softly and watching
the late afternoon sun filtering through the trees.  The only sounds to
be heard elsewhere were the clock ticking, the kettle downstairs starting
to boil, and an occasional schoolchild passing beneath our window.  And
as I looked up into my wife's now wrinkled face, but still warm and
twinkling eyes, I realized something about perfection...  It comes only
with time.
                -- James L. Collymore, "Perfect Woman"
%
I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he
has income and she is pattable.
                -- Ogden Nash
%
I can feel for her because, although I have never been an Alaskan prostitute
dancing on the bar in a spangled dress, I still get very bored with washing
and ironing and dishwashing and cooking day after relentless day.
                -- Betty MacDonald
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I can't mate in captivity.
                -- Gloria Steinem, on why she has never married.
%
I come from a small town whose population never changed.  Each time a woman
got pregnant, someone left town.
                -- Michael Prichard
%
I do enjoy a good long walk -- especially when my wife takes one.
%
"I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of
people waiting to abuse me."
                -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"
%
I GUESS I'LL NEVER FORGET HER.  And maybe I don't want to.  Her spirit
was wild, like a wild monkey.  Her beauty was like a beautiful horse
being ridden by a wild monkey.  I forget her other qualities.
                -- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
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I have a hard time being attracted to anyone who can beat me up.
                -- John McGrath, Atlanta sportswriter, on women weightlifters.
%
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and
to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and
support of the woman I love.
                -- Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1936, announcing his abdication
                   of the British throne in order to marry the American
                   divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
%
I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying,
and for this reason: I can never be satisfied with anyone who would
be blockhead enough to have me.
                -- Abraham Lincoln
%
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when
you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
                -- Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
%
I learned to play guitar just to get the girls, and anyone who says they
didn't is just lyin'!
                -- Willie Nelson
%
I like being single.  I'm always there when I need me.
                -- Art Leo
%
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped
Europa.
                -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
%
I like young girls.  Their stories are shorter.
                -- Tom McGuane
%
I love being married.  It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
                -- Rita Rudner
%
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
                -- Walt Disney
%
        I managed to say, "Sorry," and no more.  I knew that he disliked
me to cry.
        This time he said, watching me, "On some occasions it is better
to weep."
        I put my head down on the table and sobbed, "If only she could come
back; I would be nice."
        Francis said, "You gave her great pleasure always."
        "Oh, not enough."
        "Nobody can give anybody enough."
        "Not ever?"
        "No, not ever.  But one must go on trying."
        "And doesn't one ever value people until they are gone?"
        "Rarely," said Francis.  I went on weeping; I saw how little I had
valued him; how little I had valued anything that was mine.
                -- Pamela Frankau, "The Duchess and the Smugs"
%
I married beneath me.  All women do.
                -- Lady Nancy Astor
%
I met a wonderful new man.  He's fictional, but you can't have everything.
                -- Cecelia, "The Purple Rose of Cairo"
%
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the
places they do today.
                -- Will Rogers
%
I never met a woman I couldn't drink pretty.
%
I read Playboy for the same reason I read National Geographic.  To see
the sights I'm never going to visit.
%
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery.  I insist on
believing that some men are my equals.
                -- Brigid Brophy
%
I respect the institution of marriage.  I have always thought that every
woman should marry -- and no man.
                -- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair"
%
I sat down beside her, said hello, offered to buy her a drink... and then
natural selection reared its ugly head.
%
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately
anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
                -- Saki, "Reginald on Worries"
%
I think the world is ready for the story of an ugly duckling, who grew up to
remain an ugly duckling, and lived happily ever after.
                -- Chick
%
I want to buy a husband who, every week when I sit down to watch "St.
Elsewhere", won't scream, "Forget it, Blanche... It's time for Hee-Haw!"
                -- Berke Breathed, "Bloom County"
%
I want to marry a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad.
                -- Freud
%
I was in a beauty contest one.  I not only came in last, I was hit in
the mouth by Miss Congeniality.
                -- Phyllis Diller
%
I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.
                -- Chico Marx
%
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new
one every day.
                -- Heine
%
I would gladly raise my voice in praise of women, only they won't let me
raise my voice.
                -- Winkle
%
I wouldn't marry her with a ten foot pole.
%
I'd probably settle for a vampire if he were romantic enough.
Couldn't be any worse than some of the relationships I've had.
                -- Brenda Starr
%
I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42.
                -- W. C. Fields
%
I'm defending her honor, which is more than she ever did.
%
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
                -- George Eliot
%
I'm very old-fashioned.  I believe that people should marry for life,
like pigeons and Catholics.
                -- Woody Allen
%
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
                -- Mae West
%
I've spent almost all of my life with highly intelligent men.  They're not
like other men.  Their spirit is great and stimulating.  They hate strife;
indeed they reject it.  Their inventive gifts are boundless.  They demand
devotion and obedience.  And a sense of humor.  I happily gave all of this.
I was lucky to be chosen and clever enough to understand them.
                -- Marlene Dietrich, on her friendship with Ernest Hemingway
%
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
                -- Tallulah Bankhead
%
If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?
%
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
                -- George Ade, "Forty Modern Fables"
%
If men acted after marriage as they do during courtship, there would
be fewer divorces -- and more bankruptcies.
                -- Frances Rodman
%
If someone were to ask me for a short cut to sensuality, I would
suggest he go shopping for a used 427 Shelby-Cobra.  But it is only
fair to warn you that of the 300 guys who switched to them in 1966,
only two went back to women.
                -- Mort Sahl
%
If the girl you love moves in with another guy once, it's more than enough.
Twice, it's much too much.  Three times, it's the story of your life.
%
If there is any realistic deterrent to marriage, it's the fact that you
can't afford divorce.
                -- Jack Nicholson
%
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
                -- Oscar Wilde
%
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the
beginning of our menstrual cycle, when the female hormone is at its
lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that in those few days
women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
                -- Gloria Steinham
%
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
                -- Aristotle Onassis
%
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
                -- Anton Chekhov
%
If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no
longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
                -- Abigail Van Buren
%
If you give a man enough rope, he'll claim he's tied up at the office.
%
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who
cheats on his wife.
                -- Ann Landers
%
If you MUST get married, it is always advisable to marry beauty.
Otherwise, you'll never find anybody to take her off your hands.
%
If you want me to be a good little bunny just dangle some carats in front
of my nose.
                -- Lauren Bacall
%
If you want to be ruined, marry a rich woman.
                -- Michelet
%
If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate
books.
                -- Alan King
%
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every
word you say, talk in your sleep.
%
If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who wore fur
boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.
                -- Anton Chekhov
%
In buying horses and taking a wife shut your eyes tight and commend
yourself to God.
%
In Christianity, a man may have only one wife.  This is called Monotony.
%
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.
%
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -- a practice which is
still continued.
                -- Helen Rowland
%
In the midst of one of the wildest parties he'd ever been to, the young man
noticed a very prim and pretty girl sitting quietly apart from the rest of
the revelers.  Approaching her, he introduced himself and, after some quiet
conversation, said, "I'm afraid you and I don't really fit in with this
jaded group.  Why don't I take you home?""
        "Fine," said the girl, smiling up at him demurely.  "Where do you live?"
%
Insanity is considered a ground for divorce, though by the very same
token it is the shortest detour to marriage.
                -- Wilson Mizner
%
Is a wedding successful if it comes off without a hitch?
%
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the
beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get
out, and such as are out wish to get in?
                -- Ralph Emerson
%
Isn't it ironic that many men spend a great part of their lives
avoiding marriage while single-mindedly pursuing those things that
would make them better prospects?
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It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair
to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
                -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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It did not occur to me that my being with two men continuously would
interest anyone or arouse anyone's misgivings. I asked for an invitation
for Heinrich too, as often as it seemed possible, when Paulus and I were
invited to a social gathering. I felt the set of rules others lived by
was irrelevant. My childhood attitude -- every attempt to adjust is
hopeless and you might just as well follow your own attitudes -- must have
carried me.
                -- Hannah Tillich, "From Time to Time"
%
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out
next morning it was someone else.
                -- Will Rogers
%
It has been justly observed by sages of all lands that although a man may be
most happily married and continue in that state with the utmost contentment,
it does not necessarily follow that he has therefore been struck stone-blind.
                -- H. Warner Munn
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        It is always preferable to visit home with a friend.  Your parents will
not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all to themselves and
because in the presence of your friend, they will have to act like mature
human beings.
        The worst kind of friend to take home is a girl, because in that case,
there is the potential that your parents will lose you not just for the
duration of the visit but forever.  The worst kind of girl to take home is one
of a different religion:  Not only will you be lost to your parents forever but
you will be lost to a woman who is immune to their religious/moral arguments
and whose example will irretrievably corrupt you.
        Let's say you've fallen in love with just such a girl and would like
to take her home for the holidays.  You are aware of your parents' xenophobic
response to anyone of a different religion.  How to prepare them for the shock?
        Simple.  Call them up shortly before your visit and tell them that you
have gotten quite serious about somebody who is of a different religion, a
different race and the same sex.  Tell them you have already invited this
person to meet them.  Give the information a moment to sink in and then
remark that you were only kidding, that your lover is merely of a different
religion.  They will be so relieved they will welcome her with open arms.
                -- Playboy, January, 1983
%
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take.  This
is untrue.  Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the
last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give
enough.
                -- Quentin Crisp, "How to Become a Virgin"
%
It is idle to attempt to talk a young woman out of her passion:
love does not lie in the ear.
                -- Walpole
%
It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his
wife in public.  It always makes people think that he beats her when
they're alone.  The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks
like a happy married life.
                -- Oscar Wilde
%
It is not necessary to inquire whether a woman would like something for
dessert.  The answer is yes, she would like something for dessert, but
she would like you to order it so she can pick at it with your fork.  She
does not want you to call attention to this by saying, 'If you wanted a
dessert, why didn't you order one?'  You must understand, she has the
dessert she wants.  The dessert she wants is contained within yours.
                -- Merrill Markoe, "An Insider's Guide to the American Woman"
%
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to
mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
                -- H. L. Mencken
%
It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
                -- Maimie Van Doren
%
It takes a smart husband to have the last word and not use it.
%
It was a fine, sweet night, the nicest since my divorce, maybe the nicest
since the middle of my marriage.  There was energy, softness, grace and
laughter.  I even took my socks off.  In my circle, that means class.
                -- Andrew Bergman "The Big Kiss-off of 1944"
%
It was raining heavily, and the motorist had car trouble on a lonely country
road.  Anxious to find shelter for the night, he walked over to a farmhouse
and knocked on the front door.  No one responded.  He could feel the water
from the roof running down the back of his neck as he stood on the stoop.
The next time he knocked louder, but still no answer.  By now he was soaked
to the skin.  Desperately he pounded on the door.  At last the head of a
man appeared out of an upstairs window.
        "What do you want?" he asked gruffly.
        "My car broke down," said the traveler, "and I want to know if you
would let me stay here for the night."
        "Sure," replied the man. "If you want to stay there all night, it's
okay with me."
%
It wasn't exactly a divorce -- I was traded.
                -- Tim Conway
%
It's a funny thing that when a woman hasn't got anything
on earth to worry about, she goes off and gets married.
%
"It's men like him that give the Y chromosome a bad name."
%
It's not the initial skirt length, it's the upcreep.
%
It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men that counts.
                -- Mae West
%
It's the good girls who keep the diaries, the bad girls never have the time.
                -- Tallulah Bankhead
%
        It's the theory of Jess Birnbaum, of Time magazine, that women with
bad legs should stick to long skirts because they cover a multitude of shins.
%
        Joe sat at his dying wife's bedside.
        Her voice was little more than a whisper.
        "Joe, darling," she breathed, "I've got a confession to make
before I go.  I ... I'm the one who took the $10,000 from your safe...
I spent it on a fling with your best friend, Charles.  And it was I who
forced your mistress to leave the city.  And I am the one who reported
your income-tax evasion to the I.R.S..."
        "That's all right, dearest, don't give it a second thought,"
whispered Joe. "I'm the one who poisoned you."
%
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot
remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about
women.
                -- George Bernard Shaw
%
Kath: Can he be present at the birth of his child?
Ed: It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present
        at the conception.
                -- Joe Orton, "Entertaining Mr. Sloane"
%
Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.
                -- Mae West
%
Keep women you cannot.  Marry them and they come to hate the way you walk
across the room; remain their lover, and they jilt you at the end of six
months.
                -- Moore
%
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
                -- Benjamin Franklin
%
Kissing your hand may make you feel very good, but a diamond and
sapphire bracelet lasts for ever.
                -- Anita Loos, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
%
Lady Nancy Astor:
        "Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill:
        "Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."
%
Lank: Here we go.  We're about to set a new record.
Earl: (to the crowd) How about a date?
Lank: We've done it.  Earl has set a new record.  Turned down by
      20,000 women.
                -- Lank and Earl
%
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can
be tolerated only in race horses and women.
                -- Lord Kelvin
%
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
                -- Benjamin Franklin
%
Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted.  In every
relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive.  If you
really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end.
For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities
I most admired in myself I gave up.  I stopped being loud and bossy ...
Oh, all right.  I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.
                -- Kate Hepburn, on Tracy and Hepburn
%
Life begins at the centerfold and expands outward.
                -- Miss November, 1966
%
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society
being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded responsible
thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money
system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
                -- Valerie Solanas
%
Life Sucks.  Cynical, misanthropic male, 34, looking for soul mate but
certain not to find her.  Drop me a note.  I'll call you, we'll talk and
I'll ask you out to dinner where I'll probably spend more than I can
afford in a feeble attempt to impress you.  Then we'll realize we have
absolutely nothing in common and we'll go our separate ways, more
embittered and depressed than before (if such a thing is possible).
%
Life's too short to dance with ugly women.
%
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one
young woman and another.
                -- George Bernard Shaw, "Major Barbara"
%
Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking
for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.
                -- Alan McKay
%
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
                -- Lazarus Long
%
Lonely men seek companionship.  Lonely women sit at home and wait.
They never meet.
%
Lots of girls can be had for a song.  Unfortunately, it often turns out to
be the wedding march.
%
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real
with the ideal never goes unpunished.
                -- Goethe
%
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
                -- Dr. Karl Bowman
%
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
                -- H. L. Mencken
%
Love makes fools, marriage cuckolds, and patriotism malevolent imbeciles.
                -- Paul Leautaud, "Passe-temps"
%
Macho does not prove mucho.
                -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
%
Man and wife make one fool.
%
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would
not have chosen a suit by it.
                -- Maurice Chevalier
%
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the
whole girl.
                -- Stephen Leacock
%
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his
success.
        -- Jim Backus (unsourced)
%
Many a man who thinks he's going on a maiden voyage with
a woman finds out later that it was just a shake-down cruise.
%
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover.
But she can never catch him at it.
%
Many husbands go broke on the money their wives save on sales.
%
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of
insincerity possible between two human beings.
                -- Vicki Baum
%
Marriage causes dating problems.
%
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.
%
Marriage is a great institution -- but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
                -- Mae West
%
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be
surprised at the large number that re-enlist.
                -- James Garner
%
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
%
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
                -- Roger Price
%
Marriage is an institution in which two undertake to become one, and one
undertakes to become nothing.
%
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer
exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work
in the brewery.
                -- George Jean Nathan
%
Marriage is learning about women the hard way.
%
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning handsprings, or eating with
chopsticks.  It looks easy until you try it.
%
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
                -- Baskins
%
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucine, but sharing the
burden of finding the fettucine restaurant in the first place.
                -- Calvin Trillin
%
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
                -- Voltaire
%
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would
have preferred.
%
Marriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions.
%
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
                -- Edmond About
%
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
                -- John Lyly
%
Marry in haste and everyone starts counting the months.
%
Matrimony is the root of all evil.
%
Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.
%
Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
                -- Marilyn Monroe
%
Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.
                -- Jayne Mansfield
%
Men aren't attracted to me by my mind.  They're attracted by what I
don't mind...
                -- Gypsy Rose Lee
%
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later;
for another thing they die earlier.
                -- H. L. Mencken
%
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
                -- E. W. Howe
%
Men live for three things, fast cars, fast women and fast food.
%
Men never make passes at girls wearing glasses.
                -- Dorothy Parker
%
Men of quality are not afraid of women for equality.
%
Men say of women what pleases them; women do with men what pleases them.
                -- DeSegur
%
Men seldom show dimples to girls who have pimples.
%
Men still remember the first kiss after women have forgotten the last.
%
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
                -- Joseph Addison
%
Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies.  Women's magazines
also often feature pictures of naked ladies.  This is because the female
body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and
should not be seen by the light of day.
                -- Richard Roeper, "Men and Women Are Different"
%
Miguel Cervantes wrote Donkey Hote.  Milton wrote Paradise Lost, then his
wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
%
Moe:    Wanna play poker tonight?
Joe:    I can't. It's the kids' night out.
Moe:    So?
Joe:    I gotta stay home with the nurse.
%
Moe:    What did you give your wife for Valentine's Day?
Joe:    The usual gift -- she ate my heart out.
%
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known of any two
things we have.
                -- The Best of Will Rogers
%
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac.  But flowers work almost as well.
                -- Lazarus Long
%
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
                -- H. H. Munro
%
... most of us learned about love the hard way.  Even warnings are probably
useless, for somehow, despite the severest warnings of parents and friends,
hundreds, thousands of women have forgotten themselves at the last minute
and succumbed to the lies, promises, flatteries, or mere attentions of
lusting, lovely men, landing themselves in complicated predicaments from
which some of them never recovered during their entire lives.  And I am not
speaking only of your teenaged Midwesterners in 1958; I'm speaking of women
of every age in every city in every year.  The notorious sexual revolution
has saved no one from the pain and confusion of love.
                -- Alix Kates Shulman
%
My notion of a husband at forty is that a woman should be able to change him,
like a bank note, for two twenties.
%
Never accept an invitation from a stranger unless he gives you candy.
                -- Linda Festa
%
Never argue with a woman when she's tired -- or rested.
%
Never eat at a place called Mom's.  Never play cards with a man named Doc.
And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.
                -- Nelson Algren, "What Every Young Man Should Know"
%
Never go to bed mad.  Stay up and fight.
                -- Phyllis Diller, "Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints"
%
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
                -- Nelson Algren
%
Never tell.  Not if you love your wife ... In fact, if your old lady walks
in on you, deny it.  Yeah.  Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm
tellin' ya.  This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck `Lay
On Top Of Me Or I'll Die'.  I didn't know what I was gonna do..."
                -- Lenny Bruce
%
New Year's Eve is the time of year when a man most feels his age,
and his wife most often reminds him to act it.
                -- Webster's Unafraid Dictionary
%
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl;
no hatred so intense or immovable as that of woman for woman.
                -- Landor
%
No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost
interest in hair restorers.
                -- Austin O'Malley
%
No modern woman with a grain of sense ever sends little notes to an
unmarried man -- not until she is married, anyway.
                -- Arthur Binstead
%
No one knows like a woman how to say things that are at once gentle and deep.
                -- Hugo
%
No self-made man ever did such a good job that some woman didn't
want to make some alterations.
                -- Kim Hubbard
%
No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether
she will or will not be a mother.
                -- Margaret H. Sanger
%
No woman can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
                -- Lord Thomas Dewar
%
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of
him than he deserves.
                -- Edgar Watson Howe
%
Nobody really knows what happiness is, until they're married.
And then it's too late.
%
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to
the capitalist mode of production.
                -- Herbert Marcuse
%
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
                -- Plato
%
Of course a platonic relationship is possible -- but only between
husband and wife.
%
Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
                -- Vanbrugh
%
        Once upon a time there was a beautiful young girl taking a stroll
through the woods.  All at once she saw an extremely ugly bull frog seated
on a log and to her amazement the frog spoke to her.  "Maiden," croaked the
frog, "would you do me a favor?  This will be hard for you to believe, but
I was once a handsome, charming prince and then a mean, ugly old witch cast
a spell over me and turned me into a frog."
        "Oh, what a pity!", exclaimed the girl.  "I'll do anything I can to
help you break such a spell."
        "Well," replied the frog, "the only way that this spell can be
taken away is for some lovely young woman to take me home and let me spend
the night under her pillow."
        The young girl took the ugly frog home and placed him beneath her
pillow that night when she retired.  When she awoke the next morning, sure
enough, there beside her in bed was a very young, handsome man, clearly of
royal blood.  And so they lived happily ever after, except that to this day
her father and mother still don't believe her story.
%
        Once upon a time there were three brothers who were knights
in a certain kingdom.  And, there was a Princess in a neighboring kingdom
who was of marriageable age.  Well, one day, in full armour, their horses,
and their page, the three brothers set off to see if one of them could
win her hand.  The road was long and there were many obstacles along the
way, robbers to be overcome, hard terrain to cross.  As they coped with
each obstacle they became more and more disgusted with their page.  He was
not only inept, he was a coward, he could not handle the horses, he was,
in short, a complete flop.  When they arrived at the court of the kingdom,
they found that they were expected to present the Princess with some
treasure.  The two older brothers were discouraged, since they had not
thought of this and were unprepared.  The youngest, however, had the
answer:  Promise her anything, but give her our page.
%
        One evening he spoke.  Sitting at her feet, his face raised to her,
he allowed his soul to be heard.  "My darling, anything you wish, anything
I am, anything I can ever be...  That's what I want to offer you -- not the
things I'll get for you, but the thing in me that will make me able to get
them.  That thing -- a man can't renounce it -- but I want to renounce it -- so
that it will be yours -- so that it will be in your service -- only for you."
        The girl smiled and asked: "Do you think I'm prettier than Maggie
Kelly?"
        He got up.  He said nothing and walked out of the house.  He never
saw that girl again.  Gail Wynand, who prided himself on never needing a
lesson twice, did not fall in love again in the years that followed.
                -- Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"
%
One girl can be pretty -- but a dozen are only a chorus.
                -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Last Tycoon"
%
One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
                -- Simone de Beauvoir
%
One man's folly is another man's wife.
                -- Helen Rowland
%
One should always be in love.  That is the reason one should never marry.
                -- Oscar Wilde
%
Only two groups of people fall for flattery -- men and women.
%
        People of all sorts of genders are reporting great difficulty,
these days, in selecting the proper words to refer to those of the female
persuasion.
        "Lady," "woman," and "girl" are all perfectly good words, but
misapplying them can earn one anything from the charge of vulgarity to a good
swift smack.  We are messing here with matters of deference, condescension,
respect, bigotry, and two vague concepts, age and rank.  It is troubling
enough to get straight who is really what.  Those who deliberately misuse
the terms in a misbegotten attempt at flattery are asking for it.
        A woman is any grown-up female person.  A girl is the un-grown-up
version.  If you call a wee thing with chubby cheeks and pink hair ribbons a
"woman," you will probably not get into trouble, and if you do, you will be
able to handle it because she will be under three feet tall.  However, if you
call a grown-up by a child's name for the sake of implying that she has a
youthful body, you are also implying that she has a brain to match.
%
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the
farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than
chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
                -- George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married"
%
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed.  It is not fair that some men
should be happier than others.
                -- Oscar Wilde
%
Sally:  C'mon, Ted, all I'm asking you to do is share your feelings
        with me.
Ted:    ALL?  Do you realize what you're asking?  Men aren't trained
        to share.  We're trained to protect ourselves by not
        letting anyone too close.  Good grief, if I go around
        sharing everything with you, you could hang me out to dry.
Sally:  It's called "trust," Ted.
Ted:    "Sharing"?  "Trust"?  You're really asking me to sail into
        uncharted waters here.
                -- Sally Forth
%
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about
what attracts mosquitoes.
                -- Dr. Joyce Brothers,
                "What Every Woman Should Know About Men"
%
She always believed in the old adage -- leave them while you're looking good.
                -- Anita Loos, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
%
She been married so many times she got rice marks all over her face.
                -- Tom Waits
%
She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.
                -- Gypsy Rose Lee
%
She just came in, pounced around this thing with me for a few years, enjoyed
herself, gave it a sort of beautiful quality and left.  Excited a few men
in the meantime.
                -- Patrick Macnee, reminiscing on Diana Rigg's
                   involvement in "The Avengers".
%
She liked him; he was a man of many qualities, even if most of them were bad.
%
She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him a look that you could
have poured on a waffle ...
%
She's learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting
into words.
%
She's so tough she won't take 'yes' for an answer.
%
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
                -- Mae West
%
So many beautiful women and so little time.
                -- John Barrymore
%
So many men; so little time.
%
So many women; so little nerve.
%
So many women; so little time!
%
        "So you don't have to, Cindy, but I was wondering if you might
want to go to someplace, you know, with me, sometime."
        "Well, I can think of a lot of worse things, David."
        "Friday, then?"
        "Why not, David, it might even be fun."
                -- Dating in Minnesota
%
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
%
Some marriages are made in heaven -- but so are thunder and lightning.
%
Some men are all right in their place -- if they only the knew the right places!
                -- Mae West
%
Some men are so interested in their wives' continued happiness that they
hire detectives to find out the reason for it.
%
Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.
                -- Maureen Murphy
%
Some men feel that the only thing they owe the woman who marries them
is a grudge.
                -- Helen Rowland
%
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
                -- Gloria Steinem
%
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
                -- Sigmund Freud
%
Sometimes, when I think of what that girl means to me, it's all I can do
to keep from telling her.
                -- Andy Capp
%
Stanford women are responsible for the success of many Stanford men:
they give them "just one more reason" to stay in and study every night.
%
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it
needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
                -- Kipling
%
Tehee quod she, and clapte the wyndow to.
                -- Geoffrey Chaucer
%
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
                -- Dorothy Parker
%
The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one
does not need to grieve over having an ugly one back home.
                -- Paul Leautaud, "Propos d'un jour"
%
The anger of a woman is the greatest evil with which you can threaten your
enemies.
                -- Bonnard
%
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows
that the average man can see much better than he can think.
                -- Ladies' Home Journal
%
The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain
disdain; he is anything but her ideal.  In consequence, she cannot help
feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is
their father.
                -- H. L. Mencken
%
The best man for the job is often a woman.
%
The best thing about being bald is, that, when unexpected company arrives,
all you have to do is straighten your tie.
%
The big question is why in the course of evolution the males permitted
themselves to be so totally eclipsed by the females.  Why do they tolerate
this total subservience, this wretched existence as outcasts who are
hungry all the time?
%
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to carry them, and
sometimes three.
                -- Alexandre Dumas
%
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a
tedious book.
%
        The defense attorney was hammering away at the plaintiff:
"You claim," he jeered, "that my client came at you with a broken bottle
in his hand.  But is it not true, that you had something in YOUR hand?"
        "Yes," the man admitted, "his wife. Very charming, of course,
but not much good in a fight."
%
The difference between legal separation and divorce is that legal
separation gives the man time to hide his money.
%
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance
of the woman.
                -- Honor'\be DeBalzac
%
The eternal feminine draws us upward.
                -- Goethe
%
The first marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence,
and the second the triumph of hope over experience.
%
The gentlemen looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.
%
The girl who remembers her first kiss now has a daughter who can't even
remember her first husband.
%
The girl who stoops to conquer usually wears a low-cut dress.
%
The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
                -- Sophia Loren
%
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines.  They gave him
love and he invented marriage.
%
The happiest time of a person's life is after his first divorce.
                -- J. K. Galbraith
%
The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased
to love.
                -- Marquis de Lac de Clapiers Vauvenargues
%
The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs
and begin to stifle our yawns.
                -- Helen Rowland
%
The honeymoon is over when he phones to say he'll be late for supper and
she's already left a note that it's in the refrigerator.
                -- Bill Lawrence
%
The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that
what she doesn't know won't hurt him.
                -- Leo J. Burke
%
The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll.
She loves it -- and that's all.  It is thus that we should love.
                -- DeGourmont
%
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to play the violin.
                -- Honor'\be DeBalzac
%
The man who understands one woman is qualified to understand pretty well
everything.
                -- Yeats
%
The mature bohemian is one whose woman works full time.
%
The most common form of marriage proposal: "YOU'RE WHAT!?"
%
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
                -- American proverb
%
The most difficult years of marriage are those following the wedding.
%
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union
of a deaf man to a blind woman.
                -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
%
The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman
is that one of them be good at taking orders.
                -- Linda Festa
%
The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.
                -- Joey Adams, "Cindy and I"
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The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.
                -- Paul Ehrlich
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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity.
                -- Oscar Wilde
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The only real argument for marriage is that it remains the best method
for getting acquainted.
                -- Heywood Broun
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The only really masterful noise a man makes in a house is the noise
of his key, when he is still on the landing, fumbling for the lock.
                -- Colette
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The perfect man is the true partner.  Not a bed partner nor a fun partner,
but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with [you] and possess that
quality of joy.
                -- Erica Jong
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The person who marries for money usually earns every penny of it.
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The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why
some people feel there is no God.
                -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
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The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in
his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on
one leg.  The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't
take it too seriously.
                -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
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The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech,
wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
                -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
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The surest sign that a man is in love is when he divorces his wife.
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The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing
-- and then marry him.
                -- Cher
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The truth about a woman often lasts longer than the woman is true.
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The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else
are fast women and slow horses.
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The way to fight a woman is with your hat.  Grab it and run.
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The woman you buy -- and she is the least expensive -- takes a great
deal of money.  The woman who gives herself takes all your time.
                -- Balzac
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There are a few things that never go out of style, and a feminine woman
is one of them.
                -- Ralston
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There are four stages to a marriage.  First there's the affair, then there's
the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you
cannot know a woman, the divorce.
                -- Norman Mailer
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There are three things I have always loved and never understood --
art, music, and women.
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There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them,
or turn them into literature.
                -- Stephen Stills
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There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -- before
marriage and after marriage.
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There goes the good time that was had by all.
                -- Bette Davis, remarking on a passing starlet
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There is a vast difference between the savage and civilized man, but it
is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
                -- Helen Rowland
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There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools
to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it.
So it is written in the genetic cards -- only physics and war hold him in
check.  And also the wife who wants him home by five, of course.
                -- Encyclopadia Apocryphia, 1990 ed.
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There is no such thing as an ugly woman -- there are only the ones who do
not know how to make themselves attractive.
                -- Christian Dior
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There is not much to choose between a woman who deceives us for another,
and a woman who deceives another for ourselves.
                -- Augier
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There is only one way to console a widow.  But remember the risk.
                -- Robert Heinlein
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There's nothing like a girl with a plunging neckline to keep a man on his toes.
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There's nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate
his wife.
                -- Clare Booth Luce
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There's nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.
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There's one consolation about matrimony.  When you look around you can
always see somebody who did worse.
                -- Warren H. Goldsmith
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There's one fool at least in every married couple.
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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn
what it is I'll get married again.
                -- Clint Eastwood
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There's too much beauty upon this earth for lonely men to bear.
                -- Richard Le Gallienne
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This guy runs into his house and yells to his wife, "Kathy, pack up your
bags!  I just won the California lottery!"
        "Honey!", Kathy exclaims, "Shall I pack for warm weather or cold?"
        "I don't care," responds the husband. "just so long as you're out
of the house by dinner!"
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'Tis more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.
                -- H. L. Mencken
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand
more from her?  You don't want a rose to sing.
                -- Thackeray
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To be considered successful, a woman must be much better at her job
than a man would have to be.  Fortunately, this isn't difficult.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
                -- Golda Meir
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To err is human -- but it feels divine.
                -- Mae West
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.
                -- Benjamin Franklin
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
                -- St. Augustine
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To our sweethearts and wives.  May they never meet.
                -- 19th century toast
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Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering
squad and another paycheck.  When a woman marries, she gets a boarder.
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Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL.
                -- Mae West
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Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your
own name.
                -- Joan Rivers
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of
marriage make her something like a public building.
                -- Oscar Wilde
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Two sure ways to tell a REALLY sexy man; the first is, he has a bad memory.
I forget the second.
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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
                -- Richard Armour
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Valerie: Aww, Tom, you're going maudlin on me ...
Tom:     I reserve the right to wax maudlin as I wane eloquent ...
                -- Tom Chapin
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Very few modern women either like or desire marriage, especially after the
ceremony has been performed.  Primarily women wish attention and affection.
Matrimony is something they accept when there is no alternative.  Really,
it is a waste of time, and hazardous, to marry them.  It leaves one open
to a rival.  Husbands, good or bad, always have rivals.  Lovers, never.
                -- Helen Lawrenson, "Esquire"
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We were happily married for eight months.  Unfortunately, we were married
for four and a half years.
                -- Nick Faldo
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We're all looking for a woman who can sit in a mini-skirt and talk
philosophy, executing both with confidence and style.
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
                -- John Heywood
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Wedding rings are the world's smallest handcuffs.
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Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.
                -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What a misfortune to be a woman!  And yet, the worst misfortune is not to
understand what a misfortune it is.
                -- Kierkegaard, 1813-1855.
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What do you give a man who has everything?  Penicillin.
                -- Jerry Lester
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        "What do you give a man who has everything?" the pretty teenager
asked her mother.
        "Encouragement, dear," she replied.
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What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!  A man can be happy with
any woman so long as he doesn't love her.
                -- Oscar Wilde
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What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's
transparency.
                -- George Nathan
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What publishers are looking for these days isn't radical feminism.  It's
corporate feminism -- a brand of feminism designed to sell books and
magazines, three-piece suits, airline tickets, Scotch, cigarettes and,
most important, corporate America's message, which runs: Yes, women were
discriminated against in the past, but that unfortunate mistake has been
remedied; now every woman can attain wealth, prestige and power by dint
of individual rather than collective effort.
                -- Susan Gordon
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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half
as good.  Luckily this is not difficult.
                -- Charlotte Whitton
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When a girl can read the handwriting on the wall, she may be in the wrong
rest room.
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When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the
inattentions of one.
                -- Helen Rowland
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him
keep her.
                -- Sacha Guitry
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When a woman gives me a present I have always two surprises:
first is the present, and afterward, having to pay for it.
                -- Donnay
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband.
When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife.
                -- Oscar Wilde
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never
tried before.
                -- Mae West, "Klondike Annie"
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When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it.
                -- Charles Merrill Smith
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When God saw how faulty was man He tried again and made woman.  As to
why he then stopped there are two opinions.  One of them is woman's.
                -- DeGourmont
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When I was a young man, I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal
woman.  Well, I found her -- but alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.
                -- Robert Schuman
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When I'm good, I'm great; but when I'm bad, I'm better.
                -- Mae West
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When it comes to broken marriages most husbands will split the blame --
half his wife's fault, and half her mother's.
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When Marriage is Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Inlaws.
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When my freshman roommate at Cornell found out I was Jewish, she was, at
her request, moved to a different room.  She told me she didn't think she
had ever seen a Jew before.  My only response was to begin wearing a
small Star of David on a chain around my neck.  I had not become a more
observing Jew; rather, discovering that the label of Jew was offensive to
others made me want to let people know who I was and what I believed in.
Similarly, after talking to these young women -- one of whom told me that
she didn't think she had ever met a feminist -- I've taken to identifying
myself as a feminist in the most unlikely of situations.
                -- Susan Bolotin, "Voices From the Post-Feminist Generation"
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When one knows women one pities men, but when one studies men,
one excuses women.
                -- Horne Tooke
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When the candles are out all women are fair.
                -- Plutarch
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When the saleman's car broke down, he walked to the nearest farmhouse to ask
if he could stay the night.  The farmer agreed to put him up.  "I live alone,"
he continued, "you can have the bedroom at the top of the stairs, to the
right."
        "Oh, never mind," the disappointed salesman said. "I think I'm in
the wrong joke."
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When there is an old maid in the house, a watch dog is unnecessary.
                -- Balzac
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane,
most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear
that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition
continuously until death do them part.
                -- George Bernard Shaw
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
                -- H. L. Mencken, "Sententiae"
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do
not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
                -- Honor'\be de Balzac
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When you're bored with yourself, marry, and be bored with someone else.
                -- David Pryce-Jones
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When you're married to someone, they take you for granted ... when
you're living with someone it's fantastic ... they're so frightened
of losing you they've got to keep you satisfied all the time.
                -- Nell Dunn, "Poor Cow"
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Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?
                -- Rita Rudner
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Where's the man could ease a heart like a satin gown?
                -- Dorothy Parker, "The Satin Dress"
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Why a man would want a wife is a big mystery to some people.  Why a man
would want *___\b\b\btwo* wives is a bigamystery.
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Why isn't there some cheap and easy way to prove how much she means to me?
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Why won't you let me kiss you goodnight?  Is it something I said?
                -- Tom Ryan
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With the end of the football season, a star player for the college team
celebrated the relaxation of team curfew by attending a late-night campus
party.  Soon after arriving, he became captivated by a beautiful coed and
eased into a conversation with her by asking if she met many dates at
parties.
        "Oh, I have a three point eight, so I'm much more attracted to the
strong academic types than to the dumb party animals," she said.  "What's
your G.P.A.?"
        Grinning ear to ear, the jock boasted, "I get about twenty-five in
the city and forty on the highway."
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Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
                -- Dumas
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Woman was God's second mistake.
                -- Nietzsche
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Woman was taken out of man -- not out of his head, to rule over him; nor
out of his feet, to be trampled under by him; but out of his side, to be
equal to him -- under his arm, that he might protect her, and near his heart
that he might love her.
                -- Henry
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
                -- Cervantes
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Women are all alike.  When they're maids they're mild as milk: once make 'em
wives, and they lean their backs against their marriage certificates, and
defy you.
                -- Jerrold
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Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity,
or revenge?
                -- Gustave Vapereau
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Women are just like men, only different.
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Women are like elephants to me: I like to look at them, but I wouldn't
want to own one.
                -- W. C. Fields
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Women are not much, but they are the best other sex we have.
                -- Herold
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
                -- Stephens
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Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
                -- Pogo
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Women can keep a secret just as well as men, but it takes more of them
to do it.
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Women complain about sex more than men.  Their gripes fall into two
categories: (1) Not enough and (2) Too much.
                -- Ann Landers
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Women give themselves to God when the Devil wants nothing more to do with them.
                -- Arnould
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Women give to men the very gold of their lives.  Possibly; but they
invariably want it back in such very small change.
                -- Oscar Wilde
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Women in love consist of a little sighing, a little crying, a little dying
-- and a good deal of lying.
                -- Ansey
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Women reason with the heart and are much less often wrong than men who
reason with the head.
                -- DeLescure
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Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man
who misses one.
                -- Charles De Talleyrand-Perigord
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Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods.  They worship us and are
always bothering us to do something for them.
                -- Oscar Wilde
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Women want their men to be cops.  They want you to punish them and tell
them what the limits are.  The only thing that women hate worse from a man
than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry.
                -- Mort Sahl
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Women waste men's lives and think they have indemnified them by a few
gracious words.
                -- Honor'\be de Balzac
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Women who want to be equal to men lack imagination.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are
pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because
they are themselves.
                -- Amiel
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
                -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
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Women, deceived by men, want to marry them; it is a kind of revenge
as good as any other.
                -- Philippe De Remi
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Women, when they are not in love, have all the cold blood of an experienced
attorney.
                -- Honor'\be de Balzac
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a
lion with a will of iron.
                -- Honor'\be de Balzac
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        "You are *so* lovely."
        "Yes."
        "Yes!  And you take a compliment, too!  I like that in a goddess."
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing
forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.  You are
avenged fourteen hundred and forty times a day.
                -- Ambrose Bierce
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You ask what a nice girl will do?  She won't give an inch, but she won't
say no.
                -- Marcus Valerius Martialis
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You can have a dog as a friend.  You can have whiskey as a friend.  But
if you have a woman as a friend, you're going to wind up drunk and kissing
your dog.
                -- foolin' around
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You can never trust a woman; she may be true to you.
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You can't kiss a girl unexpectedly -- only sooner than she thought you would.
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You have only to mumble a few words in church to get married and few words
in your sleep to get divorced.
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You just know when a relationship is about to end.  My girlfriend called me
at work and asked me how you change a lightbulb in the bathroom.  "It's very
simple," I said. "You start by filling up the bathtub with water..."
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You know what we can be like:  See a guy and think he's cute one minute, the
next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute we see
him having an extramarital affair.  By the time someone says "I'd like you to
meet Cecil," we shout, "You're late again with the child support!"
                -- Cynthia Heimel, "A Girl's Guide to Chaos"
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You know you're getting old when you're Dad, and you're measuring your daughter
for camp clothes, and there are certain measurements only her mother is allowed
to take.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery,
are now extinct.
                -- M. Somerset Maugham
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You lived with a man who wore white belts?  Laura, I'm disappointed in you.
                -- Remington Steele
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You think Oedipus had a problem -- Adam was Eve's mother.
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"You're just the sort of person I imagined marrying, when I was little...
except, y'know, not green... and without all the patches of fungus."
                -- Swamp Thing
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        Young men and young women may work systematically six days in the
week and rise fresh in the morning, but let them attend modern dances for
only a few hours each evening and see what happens.  The Waltz, Polka,
Gallop and other dances of the same kind will be disastrous in their effects
to both sexes.  Health and vigor will vanish like the dew before the sun.
        It is not the extraordinary exercise which harms the dancer, but
rather the coming into close contact with the opposite sex.  It is the
fury of lust craving incessantly for more pleasure that undermines the
soul, the body, the sinews and nerves.  Experience and statistics show
beyond doubt that passionate excessive dancing girls can hardly reach
twenty-five years of age and men thirty-one.  Even if they reached that
age they will in most instances be broken in health physically and morally.
This is the claim of prominent physicians in this country.
                -- Quote from a 1910 periodical
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Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and
cannot.
                -- Oscar Wilde
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Youth had been a habit of hers so long that she could not part with it.
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