Quotes by Judith Viorst

“Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces”

“Forget love, Id rather fall in chocolate.”

“Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.”

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

“When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope hes dead”

“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.”

“Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.”

“I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife’s husband.”

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

“The Sweetest of Nights”

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

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says hed save me.

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.

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.

Infatuation is when you think hes 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 hes as sexy as Woody Allen as smart as Jimmy Connors as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but youll take him anyway.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

Infatuation is when you think that hes 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 hes 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 youll take him anyway.

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 . . .

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.