A man in the house is worth two on the street.


Mae West

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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
MAE WEST
A plumber's idea of Cleopatra [Mae West].
W. C. FIELDS
An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~Mae West
LAINA CHARLESTON
Ever afternoon, me and Baby Girl set in the. rocking chair before her nap. Ever afternoon, I tell he...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
How do you do, Miss West? Mae West: How do you do what?
MAE WEST
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA
Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you. Mae West: Yeah, honey, but you can't prove a thing.
MAE WEST
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to ...
MAE WEST
Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are t...
ALEX BERENSON
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
Everyone from the man in the street to the White House is talking about the need for more capacity.
GLENN MCGINNIS
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about you lately. Mae West, You must be awful tired.
MAE WEST
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands
JAMES THURBER
I'd give half my life for just one kiss. Mae West: Then kiss me twice.
MAE WEST
Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough
MAE WEST
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
LORETTA LYNN
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a go...
WARREN BUFFETT
Our house was the most lit-up house on Frazier Street.
MURIEL COOPER
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Life's irony;The West embrace homosexuality & lesbianism,but detest polygamy,but Africa embrace poly...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Contrary to public opinion,the West Is not saturated business wise,but if one can think uniquely & v...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.
IRISH PROVERB
Mae's first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that...
SARAH REES BRENNAN
When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never s...
CHARLOTTE CHURCH
One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's...
JEAN GENET
Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the ...
WILLIAM SILVERMAN
He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.'
I watched him turn away and gather the clothes...
ALISON GOODMAN
The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable ...
KARL WIGGINS
The House of Commons is the longest running farce in the West End.
CYRIL SMITH
It does seem very odd to have two [House of Fraser] stores at either end of Princes Street. There is...
LEIGH SPARKS
Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ...
ERIN MORGENSTERN
I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC
I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW
Abomination is the word if you've built a religious house worth $10,& yet you cannot feed the needy ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Along Ferry Street if you go west, the houses are on much smaller lots. The area along Cliff [Road] ...
CHRIS NELSON
As a movement (rather than a preference), the goal of antinatalism is that no humans should have chi...
QUENTIN S. CRISP
She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
There is a real fantasy with the American West. When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall ...
BILLY LONG
Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity kn...
KAREN HINES
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.but a bush in the hand is worth four of the birds.
RYAN CZARNECKI
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE
We all have an old house because of the things we have done in the past.We also have ghosts haunting...
GARY F EVANS...
I would say they're the weakest trading house on Wall Street.
BRAD HINTZ
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
OLIVER HERFORD
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it
DAVID HOCKNEY
The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE
I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
DAVID HOCKNEY
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD
In the rough-and-tumble play of politics, dog-whistle messages are copiously dispatched over the hea...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
They always say, 'Auntie, when is it time for West Street?'
BARBARA JOHNSON
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS
But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
DEBBIE ALLEN
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS...
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C.
You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrai...
HOPE MIRRLEES
If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.
HEBREW PROVERB
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two unde...
JAMES BALDWIN
We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL
People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once the...
BILL BRYSON
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE
What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300...
BARBARA CORCORAN
His parents used to own a house on Ninth Street and my grandparents owned a house on Ninth Street, s...
FRANK CORDER
TREE HOUSE
A tree house, a free house,
A secret you and me house,
A high up in the le...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
His house had floated down the street.
JOE NARCISSE
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dyin...
ROBERT MAYNARD
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dyi...
ROBERT MAYNARD
Understanding is a two-way street.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Compassion is a two way street.
FRANK CAPRA
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
ELIZABETH I
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
Some people in the town did not seem to care about the festival and were watching football on TV. Th...
OLIVIA SUDJIC
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
A bird in the hand's worth two fleeing by.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
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More Mae West

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
MAE WEST
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
MAE WEST
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
MAE WEST
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
MAE WEST
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
MAE WEST
A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.
MAE WEST
It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.
MAE WEST
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
MAE WEST
So many men, so little time.
MAE WEST
Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
MAE WEST
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
MAE WEST
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
MAE WEST
I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
MAE WEST
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
MAE WEST
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
MAE WEST
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
MAE WEST
He who hesitates is last.
MAE WEST
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
MAE WEST
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
MAE WEST
Sex is an emotion in motion.
MAE WEST
Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
MAE WEST
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
MAE WEST
I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
MAE WEST
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
MAE WEST
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
MAE WEST
I'm single because I was born that way.
MAE WEST
I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
MAE WEST
I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
MAE WEST
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
MAE WEST
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST
When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
MAE WEST
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
MAE WEST
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now ju...
MAE WEST
When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before.
MAE WEST
Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
MAE WEST
You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
MAE WEST
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST
There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.
MAE WEST
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
MAE WEST
I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
MAE WEST
You're never too old to become younger
MAE WEST
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.
MAE WEST
Sex is an emotion in motion
MAE WEST
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
MAE WEST
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
MAE WEST
I speak two languages, Body and English.
MAE WEST
You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing
MAE WEST
The best way to behave is to misbehave.
MAE WEST
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
MAE WEST
You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.
MAE WEST
A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
MAE WEST
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
MAE WEST
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, ...
MAE WEST
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it
MAE WEST
To err is human - but it feels divine
MAE WEST
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
MAE WEST
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
MAE WEST
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
MAE WEST
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
MAE WEST
Men are all alike--except the one you've met who's different.
MAE WEST
Men are easy to get but hard to keep.
MAE WEST
Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.
MAE WEST
Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
MAE WEST
I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself
MAE WEST
It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
MAE WEST
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
MAE WEST
Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.
MAE WEST
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
MAE WEST
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
MAE WEST
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
MAE WEST
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
MAE WEST
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
MAE WEST
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right no...
MAE WEST
Sex is emotion in motion.
MAE WEST
A man's kiss is his signature.
MAE WEST
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit ...
MAE WEST
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
MAE WEST
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
MAE WEST
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
MAE WEST
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
MAE WEST
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
MAE WEST
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
MAE WEST
You are never too old to become younger!
MAE WEST
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
MAE WEST
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
MAE WEST
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
MAE WEST
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
MAE WEST
I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.
MAE WEST
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
MAE WEST
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
MAE WEST
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
MAE WEST
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much eas...
MAE WEST
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
MAE WEST
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
MAE WEST
Saving love doesn't bring any interest.
MAE WEST
'Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortun...
MAE WEST
Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.
MAE WEST
You're never too old to become younger.
MAE WEST
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
MAE WEST
Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile.
MAE WEST
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
MAE WEST
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.
MAE WEST
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
MAE WEST
It takes two to get one in trouble.
MAE WEST
An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away
MAE WEST
Women with "pasts" interest men because men hope that history will repeat itself.
MAE WEST
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
MAE WEST
Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office.
MAE WEST
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork
MAE WEST
Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.
MAE WEST
Love thy neighbor -- and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much ea...
MAE WEST
It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
MAE WEST
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
MAE WEST
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
MAE WEST
Cultivate your curves--they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
MAE WEST
Look your best--who said love is blind?
MAE WEST
You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles...
MAE WEST
I like a man who's good, but not too good--for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
MAE WEST
Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you. Mae West: Yeah, honey, but you can't prove a thing.
MAE WEST
To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST
A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty--he has suffered longer.
MAE WEST
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
MAE WEST
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
MAE WEST
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
MAE WEST
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
MAE WEST
It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.
MAE WEST
To err is human - but it feels divine.
MAE WEST
It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.
MAE WEST
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else
MAE WEST
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
MAE WEST
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
MAE WEST
Flattery will get you everywhere.
MAE WEST
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
MAE WEST
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
MAE WEST
The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway.
MAE WEST
Don't marry a man to reform him--that's what reform schools are for.
MAE WEST
When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
MAE WEST
Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
MAE WEST
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
MAE WEST
Love thy neighbor--and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easi...
MAE WEST
Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
MAE WEST
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
MAE WEST
Too many girls follow the line of least resistance--but a good line is hard to resist.
MAE WEST
There are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
MAE WEST
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
MAE WEST
It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do...
MAE WEST
I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one
MAE WEST
Personally, I like two types of men--domestic and foreign.
MAE WEST
He's the kind of man who picks his friends...to pieces.
MAE WEST
When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before
MAE WEST
You ain't no oil paintin' but you are a fascinatin' monster.
MAE WEST
I was Snow White but I drifted.
MAE WEST
[Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST
[Nov. 30-Dec. 10:] Dirty Blonde ... I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.
MAE WEST
Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
MAE WEST
Some men are all right in their place--if they only knew the right places!
MAE WEST
Success is a two-bladed golden sword; it knights one and stabs one at the same time.
MAE WEST
(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to ...
MAE WEST
Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I'v...
MAE WEST
Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The non professional volunteer world is ...
MAE WEST
Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.
MAE WEST
Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
MAE WEST
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
MAE WEST
Ohhhhh! I feel like a million but, I'll take'em one at a time!
MAE WEST
I've been doing a lot of thinking about you lately. Mae West, You must be awful tired.
MAE WEST
I'd give half my life for just one kiss. Mae West: Then kiss me twice.
MAE WEST
I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
MAE WEST
I believe in the single standard for men and women.
MAE WEST
I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.
MAE WEST
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
MAE WEST
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him two--that's subtraction.
MAE WEST
I'm tired, send one of them home
MAE WEST
Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.
MAE WEST
Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.
MAE WEST
Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
MAE WEST
I can always tell a lady when I see one. Yeah? What do you tell 'em?
MAE WEST
I always say, keep a diary, and some day it'll keep you.
MAE WEST
No gold-digging for me... I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
MAE WEST
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
MAE WEST
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
MAE WEST
Don't come crawlin' to a man for love--he likes to get a run for his money.
MAE WEST
A man's kiss is his signature.
MAE WEST
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
MAE WEST
I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
MAE WEST
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
MAE WEST
The score never interested me, only the game.
MAE WEST
The curve is more powerful than the sword.
MAE WEST
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
MAE WEST
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
MAE WEST
He who hesitates is last
MAE WEST
Experience is by far the best teacher. You know, ever since I was a little girl I knew that if you l...
MAE WEST
I take it out in the open and laugh at it.
MAE WEST