quotes about love and friendship and happiness

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. ~Charles Baudelaire



The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. ~Mortimer Collins



Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get. ~George D. Prentice



We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one. ~Edward Noyes Westcott



Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated. ~Mason Cooley



Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye. ~Grey Livingston



We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. ~John Fiske



Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium. ~Ron Bolton



I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. ~Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960



For me, mowing the lawn with a very loud gas-powered mower is the best time for karaoke. And I'm sure my neighbors would agree. ~Author Unknown



God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb



I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ~Max Kauffman



We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb



Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior? ~James Donovan



This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. ~Lyndon B. Johnson



Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~Henry Ward Beecher



When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom



If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops. ~Kelvin Throop