quotes for friendship

  

  



Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~Ernest Gaines


Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. ~Katherine Anne Porter


My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, "You mean you can do all that, but you can't play my Game Boy?" ~Author Unknown


No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton


We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Pulvis et umbra," 1888


Breast milk is better than any udder milk! ~Author Unknown


There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb


The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ~Phyllis Diller


We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823


There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. ~Colette


The victory of Christianity over paganism was the greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects. ~Lynn I. White, Jr., Science, 10 March 1967


A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. ~Paul Blair, quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978


Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. ~Norman Cousins


The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back. ~Eric Morecambe


They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. ~Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems, "Illiteratus princeps"


I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. ~Lou Reed


Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~Dennis Gabor Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com


Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life. ~Sydney Smith


A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966