L.B. Scott Quotes

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.

I think women can cope a lot better than men.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.

When something's over with me, it's over.

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.

I talk too much. I eat too much.

I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'

I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?

I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them.

When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.

I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.

Look back, and smile on perils past!

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.

Think how you love me, " she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

My God, ' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.

My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook.

And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.