Minna Antrim Quotes

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• Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

  Minna Antrim

  Teacher, Cynical, Experience

  "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions". Book by Minna Antrim, 1901.

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• A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

  Minna Antrim

  Beautiful, Wise, Wisdom

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• To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

  Minna Antrim

  Love, Achieve, Distinction

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• Smiles are the soul's kisses.

  Minna Antrim

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

  Minna Antrim

  Wall, High Heels, Bark

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• Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

  Minna Antrim

  Rivers, Flow, Admiration

  "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions" by Minna Antrim, (p. 1061), 1901.

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• When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

  Minna Antrim

  Men, Awful

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• Man proposes, woman forecloses.

  Minna Antrim

  Men, Seduction, Propose

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• Every man has two personalities; the one he reveals to women, the other to men.

  Minna Antrim

  Men, Two, Personality

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• Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

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  Inspirational, Eye, Dust

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• Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.

  Minna Antrim

  Men, Pretty Woman, Rich

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• We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

  Minna Antrim

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

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• Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

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  Mistake, Intuition, Quality

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• Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

  Minna Antrim

  Wisdom, Women, Sea

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• The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.

  Minna Antrim

  Love, Marriage, Morning

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• The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

  Minna Antrim

  Life, Drama, Ends

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• Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
  For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
  Spice it with love and stir it with care,
  And I'll toast our bright eyes,
  my sweetheart fair.

  Minna Antrim

  Eye, Fighting, Winter

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• The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

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  Jealousy, Names, Green

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• To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

  Minna Antrim

  Knowledge, Self, Genius

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• Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.

  Minna Antrim

  Men, Champagne, Companion

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• A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

  Minna Antrim

  Inspirational, Life, Women

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• Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

  Minna Antrim

  Heart, Tongue, Reins

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• There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

  Minna Antrim

  Compliment, Latter, Ifs

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• An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

  Minna Antrim

  Laughter, Truth, Laughing

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• A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

  Minna Antrim

  Complaining, Fool, Moral

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