Ben Jonson Quotes

I am not in the favour of a girl running after a guy. My traditional thinking is that a guy should pursue first. Personally, also, I would never run after a guy.

The game women play is men.

Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.

I'm kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers... Or doesn't answer.

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.

You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.'

Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.

We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.

More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

I always found it bizarre or strange that there was this unwritten set of rules around how a woman could interact with a man in terms of starting a conversation. While a man traditionally is always expected to make the first move, he risks rejection in a real way.

I grew up with brothers, so I very easily get along with men.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado.

I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.