Quotes by American Authors - Page 136

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over the strings are still attached.
Jacob Braude
Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life.
Frank Briggs
I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?
Jerry Seinfeld
I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.
Eddie Albert
Love is like the measles. The older you get it the worse the attack.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
After fifteen years of marriage my wife wants us to recommit our vows. As a man I don't understand her need to get married again. We've got our toaster let's move on.
Robert G. Lee
I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair but he says he's charging me for finding it.
Tim Conway
I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
Dolly Parton
He has more chins than a Chinese phone book.
Joan Rivers
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
They say tall people live a lot longer than short people. No they don't. They're just so irritating it seems they are around a lot longer.
Margaret Smith
I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.
Red Skelton
His toupee makes him look twenty years sillier.
Bill Dana
My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.
Sally Bucko
It's good to know that there's a fine line between an "outfit" and a "getup."
Linda Merkin
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton
The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
Will Rogers
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner
If I'm such a legend then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland
Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins
Where you used to be there is a hole in the world which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Eugene O'Neill
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Thomas Wolfe
Logic is logic. That's all I say.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
Randall Jarrell
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In literary history generation follows generation in a rage.
Annie Dillard
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain
The universe is made up of stories not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.
Silas W. Mitchell
Literature is my utopia.
Helen Keller
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
The port is near the bells I hear the people all exulting While follow eyes the steady keel the vessel grim and daring But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
Walt Whitman
Love is how you stay alive even after you are gone.
Morrie Schwartz
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
Ultimately love is everything.
M. Scott Peck
Spend a moment every day thinking of someone to love.
Richard Carlson
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey
His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
Leo Buscaglia
A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is "What would love do now?"
Neale Donald Walsch
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
George Washington Carver
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.
Smiley Blanton
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Harvey MacKay
Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline . . . too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with. . . something about yourself your career your spouse.
Dale Dauten
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are . . . your simple presence can make others happy.
Jane Roberts
Ultimately love is self-approval.
Sondra Ray
Love is not what we become but who we already are.
Stephen Levine
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there.
Erma Bombeck
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love . . . We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.
Barbara Sher
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
We are most alive when we're in love.
John Updike
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
In the coldest February as in every other month in every other year the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
Linda Ellerbee