friendship quotes quotes

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ~Dan Bennett


Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg. ~Author Unknown


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?


Her hair possessed so powerful an animal odor and was so electrically stimulating, that its mere contact with my skin instantaneously made me forget fever, fatigue and pain... and I immediately felt heroic ardor and new strength flowing and surging through my veins. ~"The Garden," Chapter 1


Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. ~The Music Man


Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ~Mao Zedong


You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ~John Ciardi, Simmons Review, Fall 1962


If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. ~Emerson, Journals, 1827


The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968


One's only real life is the life one never leads. ~Oscar Wilde


Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. ~Aldous Huxley, Island


A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ~Edward de Bono


Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


You know you're a cheerleader when you have to yell, kick, and scream to get what you want. ~Author Unknown


Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. ~Eileen Mayhew


A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures. ~Robert Penn Warren


To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher


If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Let the dead bury their dead. ~Matthew 8:22


It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly. ~Josh Billings