Mae West

More from Mae West

• Good sex is like good Bridge: if you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.

  • Sex

• Sex is emotion in motion.

  • Sex

• The curve is more powerful than the sword.

  • Sex
  • Women

All 16 quotes from Mae West

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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