friendship quotes

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented. ~Lemony Snicket



Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. ~Robinson Jeffers



In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. ~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows



You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London



Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. ~William Penn



Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get. ~George D. Prentice



Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto



Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ~George Sand



A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. ~Author Unknown



The shy and the extroverted have this in common - that they both fancy they are the center of attention. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew. ~Author Unknown



Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot



Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental. ~Jim McKenny



The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. ~Lyman Bryson



Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield



It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1



Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man. ~Emily Dickinson



I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for. ~Henry David Thoreau



The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton

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