Judith Viorst (b.1931) is an American author, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is perhaps best known for her children’s literature, such as The Tenth Good Thing About Barney and the Alexander series of short picture books, which includes Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which has sold over two million copies.
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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.
—Judith Viorst
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational—but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
—Judith Viorst
Topics: Superstition
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the food taste better, and the humour richer, because they are there.
—Judith Viorst
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
—Judith Viorst
Topics: Love
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.
—Judith Viorst
Topics: Aging, Age
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.
—Judith Viorst
Topics: Love
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.
—Judith Viorst
Topics: Marriage, Commitment, Dedication
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: Love
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands—and then eat just one of the pieces.
—Judith Viorst
Topics: Eating, Strength
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