“But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.”

— Larry McMurtry

Source: Leaving Cheyenne

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American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter 1936

Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter

Leaving Cheyenne (1963).

“You don't have to war with a woman, you just get lost. Better to make love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Non ti conviene fare la guerra con una donna, ci perdi e basta. Meglio farci l'amore.
Source: prevale.net

“I have heard the mavis singing
Its love-song to the morn;
I've seen the dew-drop clinging
To the rose just newly born.”

Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) British music publisher

Mary of Argyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“I just let it roll. Like a hot turd down a hill.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop."
"What?"
"What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple."
"Raisa, this is getting us nowhere."
"Say it!”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

“Son—they say there isn’t any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.”

Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan

Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 3 “United Hotcake Preferred” (p. 65; epigram)

“A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Source: Life Is Worth Living

“I'm young as morning
and fresh as dew.
Everybody loves me
and so do you.”

Maya Angelou book I Shall Not Be Moved

Source: I Shall Not Be Moved

“Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.”

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Source: At First Sight

“I just can't stop loving you,
I just can't stop loving you,
And if I stop, then tell me just what will I do?
'Cause I just can't stop loving you.”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

Bad (1987)

“But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.”

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