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Category: Judith Viorst

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Children, Friends, Health

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Friends, Growth, Laughter

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.

Chocolate, Hands, Break

In history class, I wrote a poem, ‘The Royalists and the Roundheads.’ I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories about the sun, moon, and stars in science class. Since not many kids were writing in class, I got away with it.

Art, History, Moon

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Love Is, Tax, Philadelphia

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

Children, Try, Connection

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .

openers, introductions

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.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.

australia, cute-quotes, funny-quotes, silly-quotes

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.

chocolate, strength