I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

“I guess I don’t understand women.”
“That’s an understatement.”

You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.

You are a smart man, Ira, but sometimes I think you do not understand women very well.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand

When I say I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as I have no doubt she is to herself.

It is inherent to the human condition to admire precisely what you do not understand.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?