Quotes by American Authors - Page 197

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman
Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Gloria Steinem
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho Marx
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own way. And second let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.
Woody Allen
Whenever you want to marry someone go have lunch with his ex-wife.
Shelley Winters
Marrying for love may be a bit risky but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Rita Rudner
Men love because they are afraid of themselves afraid of the loneliness that lives in them and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.
V. F. Calverton
We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame very pretty often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. As love grows older our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
Without love what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
Benjamin Franklin
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as noble as Ralph Nader as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen as smart as Jimmy Connors as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
Judith Viorst
One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story the 1970s hit which immortalized the phrase "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.
Marge Kennedy
Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.
Estee Lauder
To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire good marriage same rule.
Marnie Reed Crowell
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck
In the race for love I was scratched.
Joan Davis
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar a custom which is still continued.
Helen Rowland
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and boughr jewelry.
Rita Rudner
They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.
Mae West
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Mark Twain
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons longing as all individuals do to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals can participate in a relationship that for the moment is not of two isolated selves but a union.
Rollo May
Love: Two minds without a single thought.
Philip Barry
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long intricate intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day ah now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.
Miss Piggy
If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King
Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius.
H. W. Shaw
Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley
Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John Beecher
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.
Charles Swindoll
Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
General George S. Patton
The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.
Darrell Royal
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Bess Myerson
I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow to overcome inertia.
Mary Parker Follett
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
Margaret Chase Smith
Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything and I will show you someone who is insecure.
G. Aiken Taylor
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception and except under very special circumstances it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.
John Foster Dulles
The middle of the road is where the white line is and that's the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost
I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.
Louise Nevelson
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
George P. Shultz
There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
Jim Hightower
The dedicated life is the life worth living.
Annie Dillard
It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.
Paul Goodman
You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
Duke P. Kahanamoku
If you aren't going all the way why go at all?
Joe Namath
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille
If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?
Harvey Fierstein
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.
Michael Evans