Quotes by American Authors - Page 30

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Margaret Sanger
Women are like elephants. They are interesting to look at but I wouldn't like to own one.
W.C.Fields
As a woman to be competitive is to be passive.
Marianne Partridge
Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
Margaret Mead
It was a woman who drove me to drink - and you know I never even thanked her.
W.C.Fields
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife good mother good looking good tempered well groomed and unaggressive.
Leslie M. Mclntyre
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If a woman likes another woman she's cordial. If she doesn't like her she's very cordial.
Irvin S. Cobb
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
Laurence J. Peter
It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
Peggy Joyce
In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.
Theodor Reik
I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.
Kin Hubbard
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
Judith Anderson
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young - not her face.
Billie Burke
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton
Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.
Sally Kempton
Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
Evan Esar
The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.
J. K. Galbraith
Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
Kurt Vonnegut
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.
Helen Lawrenson
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
Charlotte Perkins
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving
From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 good personality. From 55 on she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.
Sophie Tucker
A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
Edgar Watson Howe
I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.
Joe E. Lewis
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make the same mistakes only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Bennett Cerf
Sex is like money only too much is enough.
John Updike
Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right.
Woody Allen
Retirement must be wonderful. I mean you can suck in your stomach for only so long.
Burt Reynolds
Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.
Horace Mann
Wit has truth in it wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain
Too caustic? To hell with cost we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then.
Samuel Goldwyn
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Alexander Chase
Irrevocable as a haircut.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.
Benjamin Franklin
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
J.G. Holland
Some are weather-wise some are otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin
My father used to say: Son if you are not bright you've got to be methodical (defusing argument when challenged and proved right)
Robert Sachs
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Adlai Stevenson
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.
George Santayana
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
Joseph Heller
The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
James Russell Lowell
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
Oscar Hammerstein
The more specific you are the more general it'll be.
Diane Arbus
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Howard Ruff
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Ralph Waldo Emerson