“Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries.”

Unless you’re willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.

Come hell or water high you’ll never see me cry this is our last good bye.

You know, honey, husbands come and go but I’m still Cher at the end of the day.

Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.

One thing about prejudices — once you break one of them, you’re screwed, because then they all have got to go.

People are negative no matter what you do.

It’s a dirty job being ridiculous, but I’ll do it.

Anyone who’s a great kisser I’m always interested in.

I don’t need a man. But I’m happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don’t fold up and die if I don’t have a man around.

Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.

If it doesn’t matter in five years, it doesn’t matter.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

I’m the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven’t.

Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.