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Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men


Theodore Reik

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ROBERT BLACK All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reaso...
GEORGE CARLIN Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
PETER USTINOV Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.
CATE BLANCHETT Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. B...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN There is no difference between men and women and I tried to prove that even in logic men and women a...
JANA TYLOVA Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...
JON KRAKAUER About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.
JUDY CARTER Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
KRISTIN HERSH Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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LANDON DONOVAN Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, ...
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KATE FOX Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
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TANITH LEE Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men
GEORGE ELIOT I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men
GEORGE ELIOT Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them
SAMUEL PALMER Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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RICHARD ROHR The biggest lie women tell themselves about men: When I get what I want, I will be happy.
SHANNON L. ALDER Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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CATO THE ELDER Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
NAOMI WOLF Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
HARRY DAY Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HUXLEY Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
DOUGLAS BADER Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even ...
EDWARD ABBEY Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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DANIEL KRUGER Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; foll...
GERMAINE GREER Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women o...
OTTO WEININGER Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Intelligent men are inconsistent, but intelligent; fools are also inconsistent, and also foolish
FELIX PALAVICINI Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obse...
BARBRA STREISAND Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
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PAT CONROY Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.
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BETTE DAVIS If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious
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EMMELINE PANKHURST Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it
EMMELINE PANKHURST I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
LENNY KRAVITZ Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind.
KAY INGRAM One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
REBECCA WEST Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
WILLIAM FEATHER Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and wome...
GAVIN DE BECKER All the men and women of the Montreal police department, including myself, are in shock about these ...
CHIEF YVAN DELORME Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies
FRANK GELETT BURGESS I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
GEORGE ELIOT The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life to...
C. L. R. JAMES Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
JEANNETTE RANKIN I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have be...
WILLIAM GOLDING I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have be...
WILLIAM GOLDING I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'
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JOYCE BROTHERS Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets ol...
THERESA REBECK Women are not complicated or confusing. It’s just that most men don’t understand that women just...
NICK KINSELLA Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves.
ELISSA MELAMED There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women...
SOJOURNER TRUTH Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
THOMAS FULLER The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beaut...
CHANAKYA Women were accustomed to making substantial efforts to please men, while men spent comparatively lit...
KATE COOPER Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. I don't like talking shit about men, men make a shit of themselves 
DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ It gave me chills. The men carrying Jesus and the women carrying Mary, and I'm not even Catholic.
AMY ALLEN And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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MARILYN FRENCH Some women never talk about other women; they are too busy talking about themselves.
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THEODORE ROZAK The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Remorse is the pain of sin.
THEODORE PARKER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEODORE PARKER The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the ch...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT