More from Mae West
I don’t know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.
Mae WestMae West Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
Mae WestMae West Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action.
Mae WestMae West Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.
Mae WestMae West It’s not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
Mae WestMae West The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Mae WestMae West She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Mae WestMae West Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
Mae WestMae West It takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae WestMae West When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
Mae WestMae West I’m a good woman for a bad man.
Mae WestMae West A man’s kiss is his signature.
Mae WestMae West Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.
Mae WestMae West Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae WestMae West I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself.
Mae WestMae West Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences.
Mae WestMae West
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on men
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.
Charles SpurgeonCharles Spurgeon A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I’ve had is winning, and that’s ridiculous.
Bear BryantBear Bryant I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal
