“It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.”
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Famous Mae West Quotes
“Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“I'm a good woman for a bad man.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!”
“Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!”
“I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.”
“I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“I like a man what takes his time.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“men are not realists - only women are.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.”
“It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.”
“A man's kiss is his signature.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”
“Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.”
“I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”
“The best way to hold a man is in your arms.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.”
“I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.”
“Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present”
“Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.”
“Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.”
“Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.”