Quotes by American Authors - Page 51

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
Keep breathing.
Sophie Tucker
If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
Alan Watts
Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
To be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.
Muriel Humphrey
Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could accomplish it.
Mark Twain
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.
Dean Rusk
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge
I'm exhausted from not talking.
Sam Goldwyn
Sickness is a belief which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.
Mary Baker Eddy
Ships that pass in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380 SL convertible.
P.J. O'Rourke
If there is reincarnation I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.
Woody Allen
I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses you would have sworn she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.
Emo Philips
I'm at the age when food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Rodney Dangerfield
Personally I know nothing about sex because I've always been married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
For birth control I rely on my personality.
Milt Abel
Accept every blind date you can get even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
Abigail Van Buren
I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands.
Dudley Moore
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
Henry Miller
In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.
Pat Paulsen
Sex at eighty-four is terrific especially the one in the winter.
Milton Berle
Girls are much more psychic than guys. They're the first to know if you're going to get laid.
Paul Rodriguez
A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.
Victor Lownes
It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up.
Joan Rivers
If it weren't for pickpockets I'd have no sex life at all.
Rodney Dangerfield
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
Woody Allen
All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.
Rita Rudner
I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls would never dream of doing - like showering.
Yakov Smirnoff
I wasn't kissing her. I was whispering in her mouth.
Chico Marx
Amoebas at the start were not complex -They tore themselves apart and started sex.
Arthur Guiterman
Sex - the poor man's polo.
Clifford Odets
Whatever else can be said about sex it cannot be called a dignified performance.
Helen Lawrenson
I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.
Jimmy Carter
Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500 000 000 years ago.
Mark Jerome Walters
There will be sex after death we just won't be able to feel it.
Lily Tomlin
The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
Dorothy Dix
Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2 000 000 000 years asexual reproduction was the rule. You know if you were a creature you just separated into two clones.
Mark Jerome Walters
Sex is an emotion in motion.
Mae West
He profits most who serves best.
Arthur F. Sheldon
That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known.
Joaquin Miller
No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
William Ellery Channing
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net you can be sure I want the ball.
Billie Jean King
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
Robert C. Peale
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen
The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.
Margaret Sanger
Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
Pearl S. Buck
Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.
Josiah Royce
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah G. Holland
Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.
Eric Hoffer
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself the day you stop making excuses that's the day you start your move to the top.
O. J. Simpson
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard M. Baruch
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."
Sydney J. Harris