quotes about friendship funny

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale


Fire takes no holiday. ~Author Unknown


If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt


According to the karma of past actions, one's destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib


Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose. ~Woodrow Wilson


The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ~Francis Bacon


The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory. ~Dewey Selmon


Not afraid of heights - afraid of widths. ~Author Unknown


I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~Rene Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"


He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus


Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer


Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~George Eliot


The pause is as important as the note. ~Truman Fisher


I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. ~Sydney Smith


Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ~Bertrand Russell, attributed


Usefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829


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


I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ~Arthur Godfrey


Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as... from a lack of bread. ~Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940