Mae West on institution
Mae West100 quotes“Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.”
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I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
Mae WestMae West When you get the personality, you don’t need the nudity.
Mae WestMae West I like my clothes tight enough to show I’m a woman, but loose enough to show I’m a lady.
Mae WestMae West Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you’re heading for a crash. What I’m against is blind flying.
Mae WestMae West It’s not the men in your life that matters, it’s the life in your men.
Mae WestMae West If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
Mae WestMae West Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
Mae WestMae West A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.
Mae WestMae West An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae WestMae West I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae WestMae West The curve is more powerful than the sword.
Mae WestMae West Sometimes I don’t drink so the next day I can remember having fun.
Mae WestMae West Look your best – who said love is blind?
Mae WestMae West It’s all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he’s perfect.
Mae WestMae West Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.
Mae WestMae West Some of the wildest men make the best pets.
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
Sheryl SandbergSheryl Sandberg When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
John DeweyJohn Dewey We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela DavisAngela Davis Entrepreneurship is about freedom, a chance to build a brand, an institution, showing the new way of doing something.
Rohit DeoraRohit Deora One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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