A
Accordian
A sound I love. Probably because my ear connects it with
France.
Affection
The most necessary food for the soul. More important than
humans realize, or want to realize.
Alone
For most of us to be alone is misery.
Arrogance
On Some people it looks good.
Art
A
much abused word.
Astaire,
Fred
Elegant! Elegant! Elegant!
B
Babushka
When your hair isn't done or when you had no time to wash
it - grab that scarf and you'll be pretty and neat.
Baby
The all-important. The wonder. The never-disappointing.
The reason for enduring anything and everything. Living
confidence. The epitome of trust. A fragile, helpless Hercules.
Bachelor
Bachelorhood - a blessed state, unless you are old or middle-aged.
Baths
I love them except they make me lazy.
Bed
It's a good thing or it's bad, but beautiful! (Lyric by
Johnny Burke)
Bistro
When you are really hungry,
When you don't want to to dress up,
When you want to feel at home,
Go there.
C
Candles
In churches and when electricity fails they are all right.
Car
Is a man's best toy.
Cavalier
A species that is dying out.
Chocolate
Chocolate and brandy
Chocolate and calvados
Chocolate and whiskey
Chocolate and anything resembling alcohol
All make a good soldier's breakfast.
Compassion
Without it you mean little.
Coward,
Noel
His names belies him. He is brave as a lion.
D
Dance
The men I like to talk to are invariably nondancers.
Daughter
Your daughter is your child for life.
Dietrich
In the German language: the name for a key that opens all
locks. Not a magic key. A very real object, necessitating
great skills in the making.
Dress
(On a budget)
Here are some basic rules: Don't ever follow the latest
trend, because in a short time you will look ridiculous.
Don't buy green, red or any other flamboyant-colour dress.
A small wardrobe must consist of outfits that you can wear
again and again. Therefore, black, navy blue and grey are
your favorite colours. Don't buy separates. Don't believe
the sales talk that you can have five dresses for the price
of one. And don't buy cheap materials, no matter how attractive
the dress looks to you. Don't say you can't afford a dress
made of expensive materials. Save up for it. If you have
one good suit, preferably grey (navy gets shiny), two black
dresses, a black wool skirt, a couple of black and grey
sweaters, you'll be well dressed most of the year until
summer, when you'll wear simple cotton dresses. Another
suggestion, don't send your clothes to the cleaner's all
the time. Spot-clean and press them yourself. It's worth
it because they last longer. And while you're saving up
for that good black dress, on your next date wear a black
sweater and skirt. Nothing wrong with that as long as you
don't ruin the elegance of the outfit by overemphasis of
the bosom.
E
Eating
all real men lover to eat. Any man who picks at his food,
breaking off little pieces with his fork, pushing one aside,
picking up another, pushing bits around the plate, etc.,
usually has something wrong with him. And I don't mean with
his stomach.
Egocentric
If he is a creative artist, forgive him.
Elegance
Rarely found today. Women are not brought up to know about
it and therefore lack even the desire to acquire it.
Expensive
Expensive things look expensive. There is always a connoisseur
in the crowd.
Eyes
I like light eyes. The changes in expression and emotion
are beautiful to see.
F
Fairy
Tale
The certainty of the happy end is the magic of the tale.
Fame
If fame would be synonymous with fortune, wouldn't that
be fine?
Fashion
Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember
that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion
is created.
Femininity
Woman's greatest asset. Her own magnetic field into which
the man is drawn.
Forgiveness
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his
sins for breakfast.
G
Garden
"Let us take care of our happiness, go into the garden
and work."
Gender
At the best of times gender is difficult to determine.
Glamour
The which I would like to know the meaning of.
Girdle
An unattractive object. Women have immense faith in the
miracles a girdle can produce. I believe they are labouring
under a false illusion. I don't feel equipped to argue to
vehemently about the pros and cons of girdles, except to
say that the natural line of a woman's body has its points.
Gossip
Nobody will tell you gossip in you don't listen.
Grief
Grief is a private affair.
Grumbling
Grumbling is the death of love.
H
Habit
Often mistaken for love.
Hammock
The ultimate of quietude.
The Do Not Disturb sign in a garden.
Happiness
I do not think we have a "right" to happiness.
If happiness happens, say thanks.
Harmony
I need harmony around me more than food, drink, and sleep.
Hats
They can be great fun. And it is true that they can put
a woman in a good mood. Anyone who laughs at this fact just
knows nothing about the finer points of woman's capacity
for survival.
Hippocratic
Oath
Just read it and realize that BY OATH doctors must cover
up for each other's mistakes.
Honesty
"It is so convenient to be frank and honest."
- Nietzsche
He meant "toward other people," naturally.
I
Ignorance
Forgivable, except in a responsible job willingly undertaken.
Imagination
"Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master
of art as life." - Joseph Conrad
Intelligence
Super intelligence kindles my love.
Intimacy
There are more imaginary specks of dust casually brushed
off gentlemen's shoulders by women wanting to show intimacy
in public than there are real specks of dust desirous of
settling on a gentlemen's shoulders.
Ivy
Good outside the house, bad inside.
J
Jealousy
An uncontrollable passion, the Siamese twin of love.
Jeans
Sometimes I like entire towns or places just because I don't
ever have to get out of my jeans.
Justice
I am a fanatic of the subject. To be just as should be taught
to children as soon as they understand a language.
K
Ketchup
If you have to kill the taste of what you are eating, pour
it on there.
King-Size
I'm agin it.
Kisses
Don't waste them. But don't count them.
L
Lady
What every mother wants her daughter to be.
Las
Vegas
I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.
No heavy hands of the law or your shoulders when you roll
those dice.
Laughter
There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter
is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
Letters
There is no excuse for not writing letters. My mother
used to say: "Don't tell me you have no time to write to
someone who is waiting."
"There is a quiet place where no one disturbs you.
You can visit every day-there you can write. You want to
know what the place is? The emperor goes there on foot."
Letters
(of love)
Write them. Otherwise no one will know what wonderful feelings
fill you. Even if the king or queen of your heart is unworthy
(as you might have been told), write them-it will do you
good. Keep copies.
Lily
of the Valley
In France, on the first day of May, you bring a bunch of
lilies of the valley to your beloved; and you must be the
first to do so or it's not true love.
Life
Life is not a holiday. Should you approach it thus, you
will find holidays aplenty."
Listen
You must listen all the time or you lost contact.
Love
1) Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings
of someone else's heart.
2) The lover's criterion is: I want you to be happy-but
with me.
3) Let him go-if he doesn't love you anymore.
Let her go-if she doesn't love you anymore.
4) "Before you love
Learn to run through snow
Leaving no footprints."
This is Turkish proverb. How clear the picture and how easily
understood.
Loyalty
Should be one of the Commandments.
Lukewarm
When this adjective applies to your feelings, stop feeling
whatever you are feeling.
M
Makeup
Too bad most of us need it.
Male
He wants to be the prince who rides to the rescue, to protect,
to love the fairest of all women, nothing less. The images
he has of this ideal woman are just the same the female
has of the ideal man.
Manners
Good manners: Know your place.
Bad manners: Meddle.
Marbles
Nothing will ever replace the joy of collection and rolling
them.
Marriage
There comes a moment when even the most intelligent woman
hears herself say: "I have given you the best years of my
life.
Married
love (Strategy of)
Love him. Unconditionally and with devotion.
You chose him. He must be wonderful.
If you chose him for any other reason, your problem, whatever
it may be, lies in the realm of which I know nothing.
If your brain, instead of your heart, pilots your emotions,
there must be regrets. You cannot trust your brain. You
can trust your heart.
Martini
I am deeply suspicious of one who carry martinis to the
lunch and dinner table.
Massage
What a luxury! I never have time for it, but I'm for it.
Medical
Ethics
They make me sick.
Melancholy
Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience
as being exuberantly happy.
Melody
All the "sound," which in today's popular music
and orchestrations is all-important, cannot replace melody.
Sounds will come and go. Melodies remain.
Men's Clothes
Black, midnight blue, dark blue, grey-for suits. Pale blue,
pink, white-for shirts. Black, dark blue-for ties. Black
for shoes. Only Englishmen can wear brown rough suits and
brown heavy-soled shoes and look elegant. Nobody else should
try it.
Mixed
Drinks
Bad for you, and trouble for the barkeep.
Modesty
It is easier for the unattractive girl to live a life of
modesty.
Money
"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which
is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in
its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses." - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Beautifully said.
Mother
More solid than the ground under your feet when you are
little, more solid than rock when you need to lean, harder
than rock when the learning becomes a danger - when it's
time for you to walk alone
Mother
love
Love in its purest and most passionate form."
Mourning
There is much to be said for the custom of wearing mourning
clothes when a tragic loss has left you without strength.
The widow's costume, particularly, inspires respect for
sorrow, and the veil not only shadows her face but protects
her from the glare of gay life around her. A woman in mourning
is treated gently at a time when she needs it most.
Music
How little time we working people have to listen to music,
and what a loss this represents to our souls and our nervous
systems.
N
Nail
Polish
Dark nail polish is vulgar.
Nakedness
Easy for the beautiful, difficult for the ugly.
Nap
People who can nap are lucky. Don't disturb their napping
just because you can't do the same.
Necking
A dirty pastime.
Negligee
The thing you hopefully buy when you first get married and
which you wish you could return when you eyes encounter
it crowding your closet while you grab for your workclothes
year in and out.
Negligence
Unforgivable.
Neurotic
The more plentiful the work, the less time to be neurotic.
New
Year's Eve
Gaiety, champagne, hope.
Nice
and Easy
The nicest way of doing things.
Nightclub
I like the genuine Russian ones in Paris where one can cry
over Little Cornflower with sobbing violins for company.
Fashionable nightclubs do not attract me.
Normal
We all have quite definite ideas about what is normal. Let's
stick to those ideas and let psychiatry keep its definitions
of modern man out of our vocabulary. We need some norms
to go by in order to communicate without misunderstanding.
O
Objective
Contrary to popular belief it is possible to be completely
objective about one's own accomplishments and deeds.
Oil
That wonderful substance the other fellow gets rich on.
Optimism
Have it. There is always time to cry later.
Order
I need it. Emotionally and physically.
Oxygen
(out of a tank)
Why wait till you are under a tent to breathe it in?
P
Pants
n Texas, when you say that a man is beautiful or handsome,
you simply say: "His pants fit him.
Passion
T Tenderness is the repose of passion." (Joseph Joubert
quote)
Patience
Patience can become second nature, if taught early enough.
One of those gifts to your children for which you will be
hated first and loved later.
Peace
Why does it elude us so frequently, when it is so sincerely
desired?
Physical
Love
Any society that allows conditions to exist in which the
adolescent begins to connect guilt with physical love raises
a generation of defectives.
Piano
A home without a piano is waiting for something.
Politeness
Easy to learn. Easy to practice.
Potatoes
I love them. I eat them.
Pouting
I hate it, but men fall for it, so go on and pout.
Presley,
Elvis
He arrived on the scene when the young needed a romantic
image. He filled the bill, and on top of that he can sing.
And he has the sound of today.
Privacy
A man's good right.
Psychiatry
I bow respectfully to this science.
Q
Quack
Not everyone called a quack is a quack-except quacks and
ducks.
Quality
There is nothing better.
Quarrel
There should be a law against it.
Questions
If they are personal, don't ask them.
Quotations
I love them because it is a joy to find thoughts one might
have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone
recognizably wiser than yourself.
R
Radio
A great medium; and I won't let anyone bury it yet.
Red
It is not very wise to buy a red dress. But I can understand
the temptation-simply because men will say: "Who is
that girl in the red dress?"
Relax
Commonly used in America, even by children. Outside of America
only used when suggested to people who have really done
something.
Rhythm
You have to be born with it.
Rich
Most rich people are pretty dull.
Roses
I like them best freshly cut from the garden. The blonde
one with the tender, drooping stems small as a rose should
smell.
S
Sacrifice
The best measuring cup of your love.
Sadness
Bitter in childhood, sweet in adolescence, tragic in old
age.
Sandwich
A wonderful invention for all people like myself who like
to eat on the run.
Satin
A deceptive fabric. It looks good enough to eat when it
is spread out, but made into a dress it transfers it's shiny
quality to the bearer and spreads hr out. There are some
beautifully clinging unshiny satins in France for long evening
dresses. Difficult to find ieven in the land of silk.
Saturn
The celestial taskmaster. He won't let you get away with
anything.
Secret
One should think twice before burdening a good friend with
a secret.
Seduce
Anyone who was seduced wanted to be seduced.
Self-Discipline
The most useful of all disciplines.
Sentiment
In fear of being sentimental people often shun sentiment.
A sad confusion.
Sex
In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Shoes
Shoes are more important that suits and dresses. Good shoes
give elegance to your entire appearance. Buy one pair of
good shoes instead of three pairs of bad quality.
Sinatra
One of the most gentle of all men I know.
Variety
Variety is the spice of life only when it is not for its
own sake.
Vegetate
Lots of people do.
Vices
What other people have.
Violets
I like the wild ones and the garden violets that smell strongly.
The hothouse ones can just as well leave in the hothouse.
Vodka
It is one of the more healthy drinks in the alcohol field.
Voice
If beautiful voices were sold over the counter prettily
wrapped, women would buy them. Too bad they aren't.
W
War
If you have been in it, don't talk about it.
Weak
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the
strong are likely to make the weak strong.
Wealth
The power wealth gives is a dangerous power, especially
in the hands of the wealthy.
Weiss
Beer
Made for the very thirsty. A pale summer beer. Drink it
in a large, wide open glass. You can buy it in stores that
German imports.
White
Bread
I cringe every time I see a child eating a sandwich made
out of American white bread. Give them whole wheat or rye
if you love them.
Wilder,
Billy
A master builder who knows his tools and uses them expertly
to frame out the structure on which he hangs the garlands
of his wit and wisdom.
Wishes
The wishes of a mother for her child are few; they can be
held in a baby's hand.
Women
"If all the harm that women have done
Were put in a bundle and rolled into one,
Earth would not hold it,
The sky could not enfold it,
It could not be lighted nor warmed by the sun." - James
Kenneth Stephen
They didn't "mean to," Mr. Stephen.
Words
1) Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as
well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones
to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for
the offender.
2) Lover's words: "How beautiful you are, now
that you love me."
3) Once lovers have exhausted the simple talk of
lovers, describing the glory of it all, and have agreed
on the words and feelings on their first meeting, they should
stop talking. It is inevitable that words straying outside
of this narrow circle will bring disharmony.
X
Xmas
An abbreviation which should be forbidden by the police.
X
Ray
In American slang: a ten thousand dollar bill.
Y
Yellow
The gayest of all colours. Yellow walls make a sunny room.
Youth
Youth is optimism and trust.
Z
Zipper
the frustration caused by a stuck zipper is indescribable.
Learn to repair zippers. You will save time, nerves, and
money.
