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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

My definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because 'these are the good old days' now.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

Thoughts have no sex.

Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Home is where you hang your architect.

Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

A great man is one sentence.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

The only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

A man has only one escape from his old self - to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.