Randy Pausch Quotes

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

My colleague told me: "It took a long time, but I finally figured it out. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Men want to make women happy.

In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.

I don't have dating tips.

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.

I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.

I know my boyfriend loves to have something to hold onto. There's a lot of men out there who do.

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl. If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.

I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.