good morning quotes for friends

Las Vegas - my favorite desert mirage. ~Val Saintsbury


I felt like a race horse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like a date on a tombstone. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar


So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Prepare and prevent, don't repair and repent. ~Author Unknown


I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


To make a mountain of a mole-hill. ~Henry Ellis, Original Letters


An abridgement may be a bridge: it may help us over the water: but it keeps us from drinking. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. ~Tom Walsh


Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier


Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. ~Oren Arnold


The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb


We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. ~Charlotte Gray


Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. ~Robert Benchley


There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes. ~William Makepeace Thackeray


If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ~Socrates


Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963


Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. ~Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930


What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen (Also not about Arizona, but fitting!) What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen