Quotes by Journalists - Page 15

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin except to be there when he doesn't want her.
Helen Rowland
A man's idee in a card game is war- crool devastatin' and pitiless. A lady's idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny embezzlement an' burglary.
Finley Peter Dunne
If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H.L. Mencken
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Alexander Chase
There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States of course I am speaking only from memory.
Edgar Wilson Nye
A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.
Donald R. P. Marquis
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
Max Lerner
In my youth once when I had a really exquisite toothache I suddenly realized that my tooth had temporarily become the centre of the universe that its outcries were more important than anything else and that I would do absolutely anything to placate it. And as one gets older and starts worrying about cancer one becomes more and more conscious of the fragility of the whole body and with that consciousness comes a new and degrading kind of fear. It is degrading because it strengthens the desire to survive on any terms and the desire to survive on any terms is the most base of all our instincts.
Otto Friedrich
The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.
David Kline
What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice
Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.
Norman Cousins
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.
Norman Cousins
Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine
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
Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
Richard J. Needham
Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
Ambrose Bierce
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
Finley Peter Dunne
If thee marries for money thee surely will earn it.
Ezra Bowen
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
Adela Rogers St. John
A husband is what is left of a lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B.C. Forbes
I am persuaded that luck and timing have in my case been very important.
Mike Wallace
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible the absolute the sky on fire inexhaustible springtime life after death and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Albert Camus
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
Ring Lardner
Love makes of the wisest man a fool and of the most foolish woman a sage.
Moritz G. Saphir
No love no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
François Mauriac
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
Franqois Mauriac
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H.L. Mencken
If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
Christopher Morley
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that two people are incompatible that is one is male and the other female.
Anna Quindlen
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Eduardo Galeano
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
Albert Camus
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 much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
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
It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Norman Cousins
We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
Christiane Collange
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.
Irving Kristol
All the things I really like to do are either immoral illegal or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott
If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
Christopher Morley
In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Life is seldom as unendurable as to judge by the facts it logically ought to be.
Brooks Atkinson
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
Ernest Hemingway
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen White
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barere
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe