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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later. For another thing they die earlier.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn’t want.

Flirtation – attention without intention.

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Behind every successful man you’ll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Finley Peter Dunne

A man’s idee in a card game is war- crool devastatin’ and pitiless. A lady’s idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny embezzlement an’ burglary.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough and need career no further. If a man marries on the other hand public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

In our civilization men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman’s greatest sin except to be there when he doesn’t want her.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.