"A dame that knows the ropes isn't..." - Quote by Mae West
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
More by Mae West
“Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.”
“Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.”
“Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.”
More on Wisdom
“Meet the big while it is small.”
“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”
“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”
More on Experience
“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.”
“If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.”
“We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.”