Judith Viorst quotes

" 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 # Friends and Friendship # Taxes and Taxation

" Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces. " # Strength # Memory # Marriage

" But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it. " # Age and Aging # Freedom # Power

" 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. " # Infatuation # Love # Humor

" Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. " # Love

" It's true love because if he said quit drinking martinis but I kept on drinking them and the next morning I couldn't get out of bed, he wouldn't tell me he told me. " # Compatibility # Love # Alcohol and Alcoholism

" One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again. " # Marriage