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“Women don’t have a sense of humor,” Bertie said. “They don’t need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce that the Almighty is a female.”
“Pardon one offense,” Publilius had said, “and you encourage the commission of many.”
“There is no animal more invincible than a woman,” Aristophanes had said, “nor fire either, nor any wildcat so ruthless.”
Masculine pride was an exceedingly precious and fragile item. That was why males built fortresses about it, practically from infancy.