funny quotes on friends

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ~John Gay, The Beggar's Opera



In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. ~Colette



High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing... everything else is just figure skating. ~Author Unknown



Just because you're not uptight doesn't mean you're irresponsible. And vice versa. When will those Conservatives ever learn? ~Carrie Latet



Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper. ~The X-Files



In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. ~Hugh Walpole



Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. ~Paul A. Samuelson



We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. ~Author Unknown



In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. ~Martin H. Fischer



Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb



Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ~Lincoln Steffens



Christmas is the day that holds all time together. ~Alexander Smith



To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color. ~Toller Cranston



The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser. ~Arnold Palmer



I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ~William Lyon Phelps



God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor



Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis, Money