sayings and quotes about friends

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. ~Author Unknown



It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. ~Andre Gide



Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ~Olin Miller



Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ~Monica Edwards



A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien



One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. ~Peter Jacobsen



Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb



There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring. ~John Selden, "Parson," Table Talk, 1689



The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. ~Andy Rooney



I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature. ~David A. Daniel



Motto: a short expression of a guiding principle or ideal of behavior; a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use. Example: "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time." ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society



God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. ~Jacques Rigaut, Pensees



Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. ~Henry S. Haskins



A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ~Italo Calvino, The Literature Machine A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ~Mark Twain



A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. ~E. Stanley Jones



One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence