Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Marriage is a fine institution -
but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
Don't marry a man to reform him -
that's what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West
A broken bone can heal, but the wound
a word opens can fester forever.
- Jessamyn West
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West
provided it is not based on brute force.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking
only to learn that it is God shaking them.
- Charles West
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower.
Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that a flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens
reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky
and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
When the heart-mind opens, the nectar of its flower is Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The career of a sage is of two kinds:
He is either honored by all in the world,
Like a flower waving its head,
Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
- Lao Tzu
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
I wanted to know the name of every stone
and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -
but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
I don't care whose fault this was, just get it sorted!
And could someone please bring me something deep fat fried
and smothered in chocolate.
- the movie Shrek 2
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
Oh, Shrek. Don't worry.
Things just seem bad because it's dark and rainy
and Fiona's father hired a sleazy hitman to whack you.
- the movie Shrek 2
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
- George Carlin
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll
Some days just go to Hell faster than others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo
I was so jazzed about sobering up
and starting a new life;
I had to stop at a bar
to get a drink just to calm down.
- the television series Glee
It's just random chance, baby; get used to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God
is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
Just remember, after they foreclose on your mortgage,
you get a lot more sunshine in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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