It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
It takes three to make a child.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.
Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.
Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent.