Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.


Mae West

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Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.
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Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
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To err is human - but it feels divine.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else
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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Flattery will get you everywhere.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
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The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway.
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Don't marry a man to reform him--that's what reform schools are for.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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There are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
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He's the kind of man who picks his friends...to pieces.
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before
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You ain't no oil paintin' but you are a fascinatin' monster.
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Some men are all right in their place--if they only knew the right places!
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Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.
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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Ohhhhh! I feel like a million but, I'll take'em one at a time!
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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.
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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.
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I'm tired, send one of them home
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Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.
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Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.
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Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
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I can always tell a lady when I see one. Yeah? What do you tell 'em?
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I always say, keep a diary, and some day it'll keep you.
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No gold-digging for me... I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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Don't come crawlin' to a man for love--he likes to get a run for his money.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
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I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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He who hesitates is last
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I take it out in the open and laugh at it.
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