Mary Jo Putney Quotes

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience, ” Kirkland said.