Top 100 Mae Quotes
#1. Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
#2. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West
#3. One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West
#4. We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
Mae Jemison
#5. I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
Rita Mae Brown
#6. I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.
Mae West
#7. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
Rita Mae Brown
#8. When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Mae West
#9. Men are not realists - only women are.
Mae West
#10. Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Rita Mae Brown
#11. I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
Mae West
#12. All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
Rita Mae Brown
#13. I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
Rita Mae Brown
#14. With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.
April Mae Monterrosa
#15. I nod like a trained puppy, hoping to god I'm not drooling. How am I supposed to go on stage when I can't take my eyes off her?
I think he's comatose.
Cassie Mae
#16. It's not what you say, but how you say it!
Mae West
#17. Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
Mae West
#18. Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Rita Mae Brown
#19. I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
Mae West
#20. Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
Rita Mae Brown
#21. I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important.
Carrie Mae Weems
#22. I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
Mae Whitman
#23. A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws.
April Mae Monterrosa
#24. When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
Rita Mae Brown
#26. Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
Mae West
#27. I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
Mae West
#28. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West
#29. He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
Rita Mae Brown
#30. I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.
Mae Whitman
#31. Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.
Mae West
#32. Speaking of birthday suits, I think Mae Young's needs ironing!
Jerry Lawler
#33. I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
Vanessa Mae
#35. I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.
Mae West
#39. In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
Vanessa Mae
#41. To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.
Mae West
#42. How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
Mae West
#43. Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
Rita Mae Brown
#44. Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
Rita Mae Brown
#45. Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.
Mae West
#46. An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West
#47. I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West
#48. Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.
Mae West
#49. Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
Rita Mae Brown
#50. Tira begins to sing "I'm No Angel" to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses ...
Mae West
#51. I've been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I'm growing fins & scales.
April Mae Monterrosa
#52. JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?
MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.
Mae West
#53. I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
Rita Mae Brown
#54. They downloaded another customer query, and Mae scrolled through the boilerplates, found the appropriate answer, personalized it, and sent it back.
Dave Eggers
#55. You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.
Mae West
#57. The catacombs where ghostly bodies lie. In the silence you hear the screams go by.
Jackie Mae
#58. When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.
Mae Jemison
#59. I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
Rita Mae Brown
#60. We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
Rita Mae Brown
#61. You are a strange people. So loving, yet so lonely, inside. I would lie awake at night and gaze up at the dark blue sky, and ache to feel your loneliness - even though I was always there. I was always there, Mae.
Charlotte Stein
#62. It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West
#63. Full bloom, the pastures turning an impossible emerald green, she
Rita Mae Brown
#64. I've been things and I've seen places.
Mae West
#66. What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?
Virginia Mae Axline
#67. Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process.
April Mae Monterrosa
#69. You know, women used to rule the world until they got men to do it for them.
Rita Mae Brown
#70. The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it's not about taxes; it's about congressmen distributing the pork.
Rita Mae Brown
#71. A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.
Mae West
#72. A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
Mae West
#73. Levi is made from the beautiful pool of people, but its his good-guy-ness that makes him the most gorgeous man alive.
Cassie Mae
#74. I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.
Carrie Mae Weems
#75. Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.
Rita Mae Brown
#76. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West
#77. But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.
Vanessa Mae
#78. Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My arms feel all floppy, like flightless wings. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I looked like a very sad penguin.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#80. In school they told us the president was the best man in the whole country but I knew my father was the best man in the whole country; the country didn't know it, that's all.
Rita Mae Brown
#81. What's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.
Mae West
#82. March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.
Mae West
#83. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Kennedys - there is always a pattern where a piece of information is destroyed, in which a witness is killed. It's so predictable, you can go back and look up old cases.
Mae Brussell
#84. The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.
Mae West
#85. A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
Mae West
#86. Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.
J. C. Watts
#87. Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West
#88. How old are you?" the woman asked. "You look about eleven." "Twenty-four," Mae said. "My god. You don't have a mark on you. Were we ever twenty-four, my love?" She turned to the man, who was using a ballpoint pen to scratch the arch of his foot. He shrugged, and the woman let the matter drop.
Dave Eggers
#89. Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you'll steal Nick's powers and kill them both," said Mae. "Great idea. Hey, can i come? I'll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to let blood get on the sandwiches.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#90. I wished I could get up in the morning and look at the day the way I used to when I was a child. I wished I could walk down the streets and not hear those constant, abrasive sounds from the mouths of the opposite sex. Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself.
Rita Mae Brown
#91. Mae West: If I can't a man with a million dollars, I'll a million men with one dollar.
Mae West
#92. Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
#93. Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
Rita Mae Brown
#94. Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
Mae West
#96. Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
Rita Mae Brown
#98. It was as if, for a moment, she thought Mae was one kind of person, but now, knowing she was another, she could part with her, she could give her back to the world.
Dave Eggers
#99. I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
William J. Clinton
#100. Draiocht.
It's the Gaelic word for magic That is what you are, Ella Mae. You are Other. You are magical.
Ellery Adams
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