Author Quotes

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.