friendship quotes by famous people

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? ~Martin Buber



If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849



Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. ~Bob Phillips



Promise is most given when the least is said. ~George Chapman



I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~Eartha Kitt



It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823



Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ~Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?



To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ~Helen Keller



A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J. Moroney



Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture. ~Winston Churchill



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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! ~Charles Dickens



I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. ~Alan Hovhaness



Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ~W. Somerset Maugham



All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey



No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow



Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~Aldous Huxley



I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. ~John D. Rockefeller, Jr.



Having a bottom is living with the enemy. Not only do they spend their lives slowly inflating, they flirt with men while we're looking the other way. ~Coupling, "Her Best Friend's Bottom," original airdate 17 September 2001, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally

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