quotes on life and friends

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! ~Author Unknown



Women who miscalculate are called mothers. ~Abigail Van Buren



Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. ~Henry S. Haskins



The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. ~Sydney Smith



There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. ~Attributed to both Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons



No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley



A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. ~Gerald Raferty



A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon



Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ~Vilfredo Pareto



Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies. ~John Lester



Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. ~Alfred North Whitehead



You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire. ~Larry Brown



Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. ~Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives



The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. ~Marvin Dunnette



Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. ~Maya Angelou



You can't take something off the Internet - it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown, 1995