Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Mount St. Helens should have used earth control.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a ''Master of Arts'' and a ''Doctor of Philosophy'' after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

If love is blind, then I'm Helen Keller.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ''misunderstood'' or that he is ''different''; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clichT. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature -- and another woman to help him forget them.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her -- when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.''

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

''Home'' is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.