Quotes by American Authors - Page 133

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.
Norman Cousins
Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.
Norman Cousins
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken.
Bernie S. Siegel
Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession.
Haven Emerson
Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
Peggy Cahn
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
John Finley
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry no longer' 'I'm sorry not yet.'
W.H. Auden
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
Tobias Wolff
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.
Kenneth Koch
The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Harry A. Overstreet
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Andrew Jackson
Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged from the beginning of the world that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment but it is the better alternative.
Fannie Hurst
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
Groucho Marx
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Langdon Mitchell
No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
H.L. Mencken
Marriage is a great institution and no family should be without it.
Channing Pollock
Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
Ambrose Bierce
Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Elbert Hubbard
Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.
W.H. Auden
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Kahlil Gibran
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
Finley Peter Dunne
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room board and love -except the housewife.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
Will Cuppy
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other to let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
If thee marries for money thee surely will earn it.
Ezra Bowen
The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.
J. Ogden Armour
There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.
Eric Hoffer
Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.
Russell Green
Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.
Kathleen Norris
You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
Adela Rogers St. John
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife was wrong.
Archie Bunker
Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
Langdon Mitchell
Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Erica Jong
A husband is what is left of a lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
F. D. Roosevelt
Man's the bad child of the universe.
James Oppenheim
Man passes away his name perishes from record and recollection his history is as a tale that is told and his very monument becomes a ruin.
Washington Irving
God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds great hearts true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy Men who possess opinions and a will Men who love honor men who cannot lie.
J.G. Holland
I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner
Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a volume if you know how to read them.
William Ellery Channing
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Thomas Jefferson
One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself all your annoying habits are gone!
Merrill Markoe
Magic lives in curves not angles.
Mason Cooley
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher