xanga friendship quotes

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne



Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. ~Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown, 1926



Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. ~Thomas Fuller



It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~Attributed to Harry S Truman



We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. ~Arthur Polotnik



Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. ~John Weitz



History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~Abba Eban



Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. ~Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969



Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. ~V.V. Rozanov



The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott



We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. ~Carl Sagan



The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. ~Michael Klaper



When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe



Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. ~Gerhard Kocher



If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. ~Austin O'Malley



Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis



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There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. ~Steve Martin There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing? ~Peter Andrews