short friendship quotes and sayings

God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverb


Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1977


It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. ~Mary Pickford


Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~Bern Williams


I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee. ~Jay Leno


As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb Colton


Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections


Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. ~Margaret Mead


If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. ~Pam Brown


Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving. ~O. Henry, Heart of the West, 1907


He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi


Availability is better than ability for God. ~Author Unknown


The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. ~Sydney J. Harris


A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. ~Carl G. Jung


Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ~George Sand


Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ~Author Unknown


The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~Wilson Mizner


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