Life Quotes Quote by Mae West — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

“I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.”

“It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.”

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”

“Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”

“All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.”

“When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. (“Is that all there is?”)”

““Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship--be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles--is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”