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I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself


Mae West

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Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you. Mae West: Yeah, honey, but you can't prove a thing.
MAE WEST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF ALWAYS; FOR NO ONE ELSE CAN EVER DO THAT FOR YOU BETTER THAN YOURSELF
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. How do you do, Miss West? Mae West: How do you do what?
MAE WEST I'd give half my life for just one kiss. Mae West: Then kiss me twice.
MAE WEST There's no one in the West even close to the Spurs. They're so much better than anybody else.
CHARLES BARKLEY A plumber's idea of Cleopatra [Mae West].
W. C. FIELDS Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
CHINESE PROVERB Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
CHINESE PROVERBS And I felt closer to you. Because you knew me so much better than I'd realized - and still loved me.
ROSAMUND LUPTON Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a go...
WARREN BUFFETT An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~Mae West
LAINA CHARLESTON I've been doing a lot of thinking about you lately. Mae West, You must be awful tired.
MAE WEST "BELIEVING IN YOURSELF IS SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE DOES FOR YOU BETTER THAN YOURSELF".
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. The south-west is still much better value than the south-east, but there isn't so much of a differen...
GUY SHERRATT I felt so bad yesterday. Today I felt better, much more comfortable. You could see it in the practic...
IRINA SLUTSKAYA Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
MAE WEST I always felt that professionally, we were better off with an appointed sheriff than an elected one.
FRANK ADAMSON I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the ac...
CHAD CHANNING America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the ...
STEVEN PINKER Forgiveness is the one gift you don't give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so y...
SHANNON L. ALDER When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Your rebel soul shines like a diamond pulled from dust: bright, clear and flawless.
JAY LONG Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
CONFUCIUS That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you unde...
WALTER SALLES Don't take too much, don't take more than you need. Liberate yourself from over-consumerism. Buy wha...
AKIROQ BROST (During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to ...
MAE WEST Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER “No one, in this world, can give you the gift of a genuine encouragement, better than the inner yo...
ALIDA EDWARDS Gift cards are popular because you don't have to buy a gift, ... You just have to know where they li...
ED MIERZWINSKI I think times have changed so much that women are willing to buy a home rather than wait to get marr...
INA TORTON I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend If it makes you feel alright
THE BEATLES We gave them Clovis and we got Edison in Division I. Clovis West is really tough; they're so much be...
TIM AMUNDSEN Be yourself because no one can be you better than you.
LORRIN L. LEE There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlie...
NIKKI ROWE I was down there a year ago and it felt so much better.
LAURA KIDDER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I felt okay after the 22 miles, actually better than I thought I would. Blake felt worse than I did,...
BILL SPENCER I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pa...
ELON MUSK A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy th...
MARC JACOBS The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
MAGGIE SMITH Reyes has a provocative game so he will always be kicked but I think he copes much better than befor...
ARSENE WENGER I felt good on the ice, the first day is always hard. It felt better than I thought it would.
ANDREW RAYCROFT She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
BILL JAMES I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train mysel...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART If you need to believe in something, let it be yourself!! You have so much more power than you reali...
N. S. COLE The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your ow...
ANDY WARHOL A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
CHINESE PROVERB “I think the best gift for a teacher, is seeing his students do better than himself”
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough
MAE WEST Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your con...
WILLIAM FAULKNER If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone ...
C. JOYBELL C. Always be yourself, there's no one better!
SELENA GóMEZ If you indebt yourself for the sake of someone and expect,in return, that someone be indebted to you...
LORIANN ZEMANOVICH When you watch their team, they're much better than their record indicates. So let's not feel too so...
DIRK KOETTER If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all you...
A. NEILEN To truly be better than your past self, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours and you mus...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and y...
MICHELLE GEANEY I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time with...
BOB MARLEY Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your co...
WILLIAM FAULKNER It's so much better to desire than to have.
ANOUK AIMEE It felt good today. It felt much better than yesterday. I think I'm close. I'm ready to go, ready to...
DENNY BAUTISTA I always felt her vulnerability. You could always see it, though she'd have killed you if you said s...
GENA ROWLANDS Fannie Mae is a different company than a year ago. We have been humbled, even embarrassed. Despite t...
DANIEL MUDD I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained...
JOHN LEGEND We also have people who buy laying hens to raise their own eggs. They taste a lot better than the on...
BOBBY RUSSELL Hating yourself is like hating the sun. No matter how much you complain of it agitating your eyes, i...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES At the moment it is much more unknown to me here than in the American west, which I know quite well ...
WIM WENDERS People say they know you better than yourself, but truly you jus know what's best for yourself
MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that ...
BETTY CUTHBERT Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. ...
PAULA HELLER GARLAND What one hopes for is always better than what one has
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superio...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could repl...
ANDREW TAYLOR STILL [Despite making the playoffs last year, the team felt it could have achieved much more than they did...
ED BRADLEY I cook better than you," Nick corrected absently. "I think monkeys can probably be taught to cook be...
SARAH REES BRENNAN Maybe everything’s not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage...
STEFAN ZWEIG I told her if she could quit, I would buy her a diamond ring of her choice,
BARBARA WARREN If you can give yourself only one gift, let it be positivity.
LILY CHATTERJEE We're really disappointed. We felt we'd get off to a much better start than this,
DENNIS GREEN I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.
BELLA FREUD Surround yourself with people who are better than you and you will become better yourself.
MICHAEL B. KITSON You couldn't ask for a better gift at Christmastime.
BILLY CURRINGTON At United, there are great traditions, which you can't buy in one or two years. They are created...
CRISTIANO RONALDO On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If ...
SAM KEAN Believe in yourself for nobody else can understand you better than you do.....
PRABHA I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must lov...
C. JOYBELL C. The price you will offer yourself to the world, is how much they will buy you.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, th...
H. L. MENCKEN Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, th...
H. L. MENCKEN Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they...
GLORIA STEINEM Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing the...
H. L. MENCKEN Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN If u want perform better than you have to believe in yourself.
LALIT BHOJWANI

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