Famous Judith Viorst Quotations

"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 Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it."

by Judith Viorst

"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."

by Judith Viorst

"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."

by Judith Viorst

"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."

by Judith Viorst

"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."

by Judith Viorst

"When he is late for dinner i know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street. I always hope he is dead."

by Judith Viorst

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

by Judith Viorst

"Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?"

by Judith Viorst