Marie Dressler Quotes

Working with guys allowed me to at least understand guys in a way that I could then say to women, 'Look, here's what I've learned about men.'

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

I know guys. I know the way they think.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

Who knows why men do anything?

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males are better at hating things that can't hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don't see the big picture.

Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

I have always been amazed guys read my books and seem to enjoy them. Because I've raised boys, I like to think I can get inside a guy's mind. I try and make the boys talk like guys, sound like guys and react like guys.

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.

Ladies, you may not realize this, understand this, or even believe this, but everything else we do is ultimately for you. Men don't do anything-create art, build businesses, donate to charity, invent things, or do anything noteworthy-for any reason other than to impress women, and thus get them to have sex with us. If women didn't exist, we'd still just be naked grunting apes living in caves. In a very real way, pussy is the key to human civilization. You don't have to like it, but it's a fact; if you understand it, you understand men.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.