Maureen Dowd Quotes

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

I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

I just don't get boys; I don't really get men.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about.

Cricket often leaves you scratching your head.

Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God.

I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with.

Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

I'm not saying I know everything about love. I'm still trying to figure out girls... I don't think we'll ever totally figure out girls.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

No. Haven’t you been listening?” Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.

Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.

Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if she means "O" for Owen, or just plan "Oh." He is not sure what difference it would make in either case. He feels the needs to clarify. "When I said 'I like you very much,' I actually meant 'I love you.'" "O," she says, "I actually meant the same thing." She closes the car door behind her. "Well," he says to himself, driving back to his apartment, "isn't that something?

Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

There is no formula to relationships.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.