Judith Viorst Quotes

• 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.

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope

• 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.

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends

• Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

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

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Husbands, Wonderful

• 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.

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage

• Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Love

• One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Marriage

• 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

  Topics in Love

• For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they’ve found.

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Romance, Marriage

• Infatuation is when you think 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 Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway.

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Love

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

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Food, Strength

• 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.

  Judith Viorst

  Topics in Age, Children, Friendship, Health

  Tags in Put, Up, Earned, End, Face, Deserve, Must, Old

Judith Viorst (12)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Researcher

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• 1959 - Perry Farrell
• 1927 - Martin Fleischmann
• 1971 - Robert Gibbs
• 1874 - Lou Henry Hoover

Deaths

• 1970 - Vera Brittain
• 1991 - Lee Atwater
• 1912 - Robert Falcon Scott
• 1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn
• 1982 - Nathan F Twining