Quotes to inspire and reflect

Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils…

You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow.

Her mother was a cultivated woman—she was born in a greenhouse.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

I never got along with my dad. When I was a kid, other kids would come up to me: “My dad can beat up your dad.” I’d go, “When?… He cuts the lawn on Saturdays. Nail him out there when he’s got those Bermuda shorts, red tennis shoes, and sock garters on.”

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

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.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

One must have some occupation nowadays. If I hadn’t my debts I shouldn’t have anything to think about.

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

To say there is no vice, but beggary.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Is there no manners left among maids?

I hate women because they always know where things are.

It’s better to be looked over than overlooked.

And of course a man who is much talked about is always very attractive. One feels there must be something in him after all.

You should never try to understand them. Women are pictures. Men are problems. If you want to know what a woman really means—which, by the way, is always a dangerous thing to do—look at her, don’t listen to her.

Men are mad things.

‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman….Or the want of it in a man.

Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

A woman can keep one secret—the secret of her age.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Men are easy to get but hard to keep.

His Heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

To one thing constant never.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?

No faith, no honesty in men…

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

The chief excitement in a woman’s life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Ah! the strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women…merely adored.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

I am all for women’s rights—and for their lefts too.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin’ back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time…they’re gone.

The main achievement of the Women’s Movement was the right to go Dutch.