quotes about best friends

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. ~Heywood Broun



Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel Johnson



As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. ~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal



Women who miscalculate are called mothers. ~Abigail Van Buren



Michael W. Fox, vice-president of the Humane Society, said that, "to call an animal with whom you share your life a 'pet,' is reminiscent of men's magazines where you (a figure of speech, don't take it personally) have the Pet of the Month." It is supposed that the continued use of the word "pet" to designate dogs or cats threatens to reduce their level of respect to the current status of twentieth century North American women. Now that's radical. ~The McGill Red Herring



Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished. ~Clifford Stoll



There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~Anais Nin



I try to avoid stress - it makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent." ~Berri Clove



A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Take the time to come home to yourself every day. ~Robin Casarjean



They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759



The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. ~Willa Sibert Cather



The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign. ~Primo Levi



The surest way to be alone is to get married. ~Gloria Steinem



Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ~Michel de Montaigne



Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. ~Thurman Arnold



Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. ~Colin Sautar



No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ~Bertrand Arthur William Russell, On Education, 1926



The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently. ~Margaret Smith