I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.


Mae West

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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
MAE WEST
An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~Mae West
LAINA CHARLESTON
Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you. Mae West: Yeah, honey, but you can't prove a thing.
MAE WEST
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
AESOP
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
AESOP
A plumber's idea of Cleopatra [Mae West].
W. C. FIELDS
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough
MAE WEST
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
I'd give half my life for just one kiss. Mae West: Then kiss me twice.
MAE WEST
How do you do, Miss West? Mae West: How do you do what?
MAE WEST
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a go...
WARREN BUFFETT
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL
Computer models are like a model car: Sometimes they're perfect and work well, but some models don't...
CHAD MYERS
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
I've been doing a lot of thinking about you lately. Mae West, You must be awful tired.
MAE WEST
The last suite of model runs we had today, most of the reliable computer models all have the storm t...
LIXION AVILA
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. But, please keep in mind it is NOT the real thin...
ROBERTO TORRES LIFESTYLE TRAINER
I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. ...
DAISY FUENTES
Are you genuine? or just a play-actor? A representative? it the actual thing represented?-Ultimately...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation...
IM NO JUNG
I expect consumer spending to continue to improve. The central bank is likely to raise interest rate...
IM NO JUNG
The negative impact of high international oil prices was big in August. We can still expect a recove...
IM NO JUNG
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful wr...
NGAIO MARSH
It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But y...
TESSA DARE
(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to ...
MAE WEST
I won't date a model, because models are perfect and perfect is boring.
NIALL HORAN
I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the...
DAMBISA MOYO
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER
Ever afternoon, me and Baby Girl set in the. rocking chair before her nap. Ever afternoon, I tell he...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear.
ARISTOTLE
I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
CHARLES BARKLEY
There is no cookie-cutter business model out there yet. There are several different models out there...
JEFF ORR
There is no longer any excuse for not adopting corporate IM. But businesses should establish policie...
TOM EID
I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing m...
DWIGHT DAVIS
It's not an outside thing. ... It's a West High School club putting on a West High School event.
JUSTIN DALEY
No models are perfect but all models just need to be good enough to improve the decisions we make.
DAVID FOGARTY
When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for ...
CHARLES DUHIGG
When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just a...
WALTER PAYTON
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
DAVE BARRY
The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
CAMERON WINKLEVOSS
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them;...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
(Stella Mae) had everything down to the wire of where she wanted everything to go. She even had it d...
SUSAN WHEELER
There was a young lady named Mae
Who smoked without stopping all day;
As pack followed pac...
EDWARD GOREY
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by po...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
People have used models to study permafrost before, but not within a fully interactive climate syste...
DAVID LAWRENCE
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Our approach is lightweight, and models do not get obsolete. You can update the model mechanically.
NEERAJ SANGAL
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not ack...
SHIRIN EBADI
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come ...
FREEMAN DYSON
I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve condition...
RORY KENNEDY
Not to sound, you know, like a dick," Jack said carefully. "But you just dragged us out of bed to sh...
AMANDA HOCKING
Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE
All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA
All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Don't be scared," Willa Mae said.
I looked at her. "Aren't you scared?"
Willa Mae looked a...
MARGARET MCMULLAN
The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an o...
CHARLES FORT
An imitation rough diamond.
MARGOT ASQUITH
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-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role m...
BILL DEDMAN
They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!
ALAN CLARK
Our models are a catalogue of our options, so pretty much everything that we offer or a lot of what ...
JULIE BROWN
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
JACKIE KENNEDY
Premier Campbell could make better use of his time in Europe by investigating elder care models in S...
JOYCE JONES
A lot of men tend to want "models"
I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they c...
TRISHA VENTKER
You’re a lady. It’s written all over you, but the West doesn’t forgive any woman-unless she’...
LILIANA SHELBROOK
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
ERNO RUBIK
Mae's first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that...
SARAH REES BRENNAN
The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON
We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was ...
DAVID FURNISH
Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu...
ARTEMUS WARD
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Mae: I've been asked to get married lots of times. Rae: Who asked you? Mae: Mom and Dad. Lots of...
UNKNOWN
The local model uses a body of evidence. They make real goals. There's a real opportunity to focus a...
LINDA GANN
No one ever became great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
No man was ever great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.
RICHIE SAMBORA
No lady is ever a gentleman
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing.
LISA KLEYPAS
There was no south, there was no north, no east and no west-just the 11 apostles.
PAUL J. F. LUSAKA
I think of her as just a lady. She was the hostess, an organizer, just a warm smile. The best neighb...
JENNIFER UHLMANN
I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by...
WILEY POST
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
LOUIS NIZER
Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.
-'Rhett
ROWENA CHERRY
Fake sUCKs!
TOBA BETA
Michelle has had to grapple with Hilary Clinton's legacy as First Lady... Michelle Obama never w...
JODI KANTOR
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
BARRY DILLER
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON
It's really an opportunity for us to learn about a different model. It's more importantly recognizin...
ANNE SWEENEY
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model...
EDWARD DE BONO
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
BARBARA HEPWORTH
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
This blessed attack revealed the real hypocritical face of the West.
AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI
It's the Super Bowl for supermodels. The first year, there was some difficulty getting models. They ...
ED RAZEK
You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.
STIPE MIOCIC

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, ...
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it
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To err is human - but it feels divine
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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
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.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right no...
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit ...
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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.
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I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.
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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.
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I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
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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.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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Saving love doesn't bring any interest.
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'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
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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.
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Look your best--who said love is blind?
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You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles...
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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...
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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