Henny Youngman Quotes

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Strong women only marry weak men.

I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

Women—one half the human race at least—care fifty times more for a marriage than for a ministry.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man..

While women prefer to have a higher-earning power, men generally prefer to be the higher-earning partner in a relationship. This simple but profound difference … has powerful consequences for the so-called pay gap. If the pay gap were magically eliminated, … simple arithmetic suggests that half the women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate. The pay gap helps to promote and sustain marriages.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I've always said if a woman is looking for a good husband, she should go for a Jewish man past 60. Jewish men are essentially brought up to love women. Then you rebel against that and become a bit of a bastard. Then at 60, you revert.

A male can be a boy, a man, a love/husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather, but they don't have any knowledge what's happening inside a woman's body. That's what I had learnt in my early married life.

In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.

In India, tradition is paramount. Husband-wife relationship is okay. They do not allow girls to go out.

A Jew never laughs without looking at his wife for approval.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.