Quotes by Journalists - Page 17

Happiness is the china shop love is the bull.
H.L. Mencken
Love the quest marriage the conquest divorce the inquest.
Helen Rowland
Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin
Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.
Irving Kristol
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.
H.L. Mencken
But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
Charlton Ogburn
Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B.C. Forbes
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller
My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person born on the hottest day of the year conceived on a Christmas Eve made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.
Anna Quindlen
Parents however old they and we may grow to be serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around we can avoid the fact of our mortality we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard
For most of life nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends then the chances are you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job huge amounts of money a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If on the other hand happiness depends on a good breakfast flowers in the yard a drink or a nap then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Andy Rooney
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Rose Wilder Lane
What you become is what counts.
Liz Smith
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly a good inner life is difficult to achieve especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
W. L. Shirer
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and should be taken in small doses.
Russell Baker
Infatuation is when you think that 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 Conners as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.
Judith Viorst
I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth and what we can enjoy in this life I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
Heinrich Heine
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
Judith Viorst
To serve thy generation this thy fate: "Written in water " swiftly fades thy name But he who loves his kind does first or late A work too great for fame.
Mary Clemmer
The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.
Phyllis Battelle
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
Brenda Ueland
A good laugh makes any interview or any conversation so much better.
Barbara Walters
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.
Charlton Ogburn
Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of water.
Antoine de Rivarol
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Harriet Woods
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Alexander Chase
The biggest dog has been a pup.
Joaquin Miller
The supply of government exceeds the demand.
Lewis H. Lapham
Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.
Randolph Churchill
The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot
The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.
Henry George
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.
H.L. Mencken
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I.F. Stone
A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.
Beryl Pfizer
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
Hugh Sidey
Biography is higher gossip.
Robert Winder
Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.
John Fountain
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.
Max Lerner
In the faces of men and women I see God.
Walt Whitman
God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
H.L. Mencken
God seems to have the receiver off the hook.
Arthur Koestler
In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass I find letters from God dropt in the street and every one is signed by God's name and I leave them where they are for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.
Walt Whitman
The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.
Jack London
Growth is not concerned with itself.
Meridel Le Sueur
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never any of us are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
Katherine Anne Porter
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.
Rebecca West
Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.
James Reston
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.
Frances Marion
You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.
Maurice Switzer
It is when things go hardest when life becomes most trying that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.
B.C. Forbes
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith
Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith