quotes about best friends and distance
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren
A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating. ~Nik Posa
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Every man is the son of his own works. ~Miguel de Cervantes
War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting? ~The Value of Families
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~Mark Twain
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. ~Henri Amiel
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ~Pam Brown
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. ~Jose Simons
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~Charlie Brown
And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. ~Scott Adams
Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail. ~Astrid Alauda
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. ~Sid Caesar
Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey. ~"Pappy" Maverick, in Maverick Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. ~Author Unknown
The hair is the richest ornament of women. ~Martin Luther
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. ~Hermann Hesse
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. ~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ~Ellie Katz
Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?" ~Jack Handey
