Showing posts with label Mae West. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mae West. Show all posts

Monday, February 22, 2010

Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos

Posing (dead) armadilloImage by melvinrobertw via Flickr

Between two evils I always pick the one I never tried before. – Mae West

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. – Benjamin Disraeli

There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. – James Allen

Assumption is the mother of screwup. – Angelo Donghia

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should choose the bolder. – W.J. Slim

He who has a choice has trouble. – Dutch proverb

Decisions rise to the management level where the person making them is least qualified to do so – Laurence J. Peter



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Friday, January 8, 2010

We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us

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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. – Chinese proverb

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens

We have met the enemy and he is us. – Walt Kelly

We are all richer than we think we are. – Michel de Montaigne

Nothing you can’t spell will ever work. – Will Rogers

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. – Mae West

I’m as pure as the driven slush. – Tallulah Bankhead



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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Darkly Comical Hollywood Quotes

Cover of "Goodness Had Nothing to Do with...Cover of Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It

Mae West

Her autobiography – Goodness Had Nothing to do With It

Sex is an emotion in motion.

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Every man I meet wants to protgect me. Can’t figure out from whom.

When they make a man better than George Raft, I’ll make him too.

Beulah, peel me a grape.

Kiss me, my fool.


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