Abraham Lincoln wasn't much of a dancer. "Miss Todd, I should like to dance with you in the worst way," he told his future wife. Miss Todd later said to a friend, "He certainly did." "John Quincy Adams was a first-rate swimmer. Once when he was skinny-dipping in the Potomac River, a women reporter snatched his clothes and sat on them until he gave her an interview." "(Andrew Johnson couldn't read until he was fourteen! He didn't learn to write until after he was married!)
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JUDITH BUTLER 'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a differe... JUDITH MARTIN There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. JUDITH ANDERSON Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I... JUDITH ROSSNER Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers m... JUDITH MARTIN Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a h... JUDITH VIORST Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and... JUDITH GUEST A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?" -Royce Westmorelan... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Here is the same clock that walked quietly Through those enormous years I half recall, When b... JUDITH WRIGHT If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universit... JUDITH MARTIN It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It ... JUDITH ROSSNER One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with y... JUDITH VIORST One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls ... JUDITH VIORST You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and th... JUDITH VIORST Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble ... JUDITH VIORST There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food... JUDITH MARTIN An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep. JUDITH MCNAUGHT Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is co... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat... JUDITH VIORST There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, someth... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, pe... JUDITH THURMAN You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!" "And you, my dear," Royce ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT It's true love because if he said quit drinking martinis but I kept on drinking them and the next mo... JUDITH VIORST Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair. JUDITH STERN Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as n... JUDITH VIORST