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What men say about women

Who made the following quotes. Choose from the selection offered.

1

To be perfect as a woman does not mean to be like a man.
 
Pope John Paul II
John F Kennedy
Nelson Mandela
 

2

Woman was God's second mistake.
 
Gordon Brown
Adolf Hitler
Friedrich Nietzsche
 

3

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of recep-tiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
 
Oscar Wilde
Timothy Leary
George Bush
 

4

By all means marry, if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
 
John Stuart Mill
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Socrates
 

5

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed
 
Woody Allen
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
 

6

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition
 
Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Thackeray
Bill Bryson
 

7

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
 
Sir John Major
John Paul Getty
Aristotle Onassis
 

8

I've reached the age where competence is a turn on
 
Billy Joel
Neil Diamond
Rod Stewart
 

9

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them
 
Robert Graves
John Keats
John Betjeman
 

10

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
 
Elton John
John Lennon
Victor Borge
 

11

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge, we would get somewhere
 
Tony Blair
Oscar Wilde
James Thurber
 

12

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
 
Sir Christopher Marlowe
Dr. Johnson
Benjamin Disraeli
 

13

The great question... Which I have not been able to answer...is, "What does a woman want?"
 
Richard Wagner
Sigmund Freud
George Gershwin
 

14

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
 
Sir Winston Churchill
The Duke of Windsor
Oscar Wilde
 

15

A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
 
Charlie Chaplin
Groucho Marx
Bill Clinton
 

16

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare....
 
Rene Descartes
Simon Singh
Sir Isaac Newton
 

17

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch
 
James Bond
Charles Dickens
Ian Fleming
 

18

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
 
Alexandre Dumas
William Thackeray
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 

19

Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel...
 
Joseph Conrad
Charles Dickens
William Makepeace Thackeray
 

20

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
 
John Steinbeck
Anthony Trollope
Mark Twain
 

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