Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

I love to watch times change!

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

I love stories about women.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.