1861-18?, American Epigrammist
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Minna Antrim – [Pleasure]
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Minna Antrim – [Virtue]
An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
Minna Antrim – [Aphorisms and Epigrams]
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim – [Flattery]
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
Minna Antrim – [Enthusiasm]
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim – [Experience]
Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.
Minna Antrim – [Men and Women]
Man proposes, woman forecloses.
Minna Antrim – [Seduction]
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
Minna Antrim – [Greed]
The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
Minna Antrim – [Jealousy]
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Minna Antrim – [Lies and Lying]
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
Minna Antrim – [Life and Living]
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
Minna Antrim – [Men and Women]