Quotes by American Authors - Page 153

There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Richard Hovey
I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehrer
How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.
Marlene Dietrich
One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
Robert Byrne
Trouble is a part of life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
You say that love is nonsense. ... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain an ache about the heart never leaving one by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism not intolerable at any one instant but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Henry Brooks Adams
Happiness is the china shop love is the bull.
H.L. Mencken
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell
Love the quest marriage the conquest divorce the inquest.
Helen Rowland
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of withering of tarnishing.
Anaïs Nin
No one is so accursed by fate No one so utterly desolate But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trust your intuitive heart.
Richard Carlson
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people real or fictional who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.
Barbara Sher
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
James A. Garfield
How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.
Charles Swindoll
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber so long as it receives messages of beauty hope cheer and courage so long are you young.
Douglas MacArthur
You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.
Liz Dolan
Keep your heart open for as long as you can as wide as you can for others and especially for yourself.
Morrie Schwartz
When you wholeheartedly adopt a "with all your heart" attitude and go all out with the positive principle you can do incredible things.
Norman Vincent Peale
Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land."
Helen Keller
The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
Kahlil Gibran
Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
Wendell Phillips
The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is not a condition of matter but of Mind.
Mary Baker Eddy
Ladies and gentlemen after what I've been through I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.
David Letterman
I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W.C.Fields
I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.
Rita Rudner
His idea of exercise is walking to his vitamins.
Casey Fenton
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
Have you noticed when you go on a diet the first thing you lose is your temper.
Robert Orben
My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled.
Red Skelton
My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
Walter Mattbau
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.
Bob Rubin
The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it it's too far to walk back.
Franklin P. Jones
Your medical tests are in. You're short fat and bald.
Tom Wilson
I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.
Dick Gregory
Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Vicki Baum
I've been on every diet in the world. The best one is the BBC diet: Buy Bigger Clothes.
Gary Owens
Lord if you can't make me thin - can you make all my friends fat?
Judy Hampton
I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Erma Bombeck
Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.
Jacob Braude
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Ben Franklin
Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin
You can't lose weight without exercise. But I've got a philosophy about exercise. I don't think you should punish your legs for something your mouth did. Drag your lips around the block once or twice.
Gary Owens
Hate is such a luxurious emotion it can only be spent on one we love.
Bob Udkoff
Hatred is self-punishment.
Hosea Ballou
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
Psychiatrists today . . . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate.
Bonaro Overstreet
Take time for all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.
Irving Kristol
Happy people plan actions they don't plan results.
Dennis Wholey
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis
I look better feel better make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.
George Burns