broken friendship quotes and sayings

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955


The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ~Galileo


The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. ~Clifford Stoll


The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run. ~Tim Cahill


The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated


Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke


As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. ~Author Unknown


A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen


Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith


Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov


Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. ~Peter Mere Latham


When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong. ~Ani Difranco


A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


People have become as processed as food. ~Astrid Alauda


Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~George Bernard Shaw


The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson


Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. ~James Frederick Green


Hmmm, how to "can a day?" You know, those days that seem just perfect you want access to them whenever the need arises. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity. ~George Bancroft