quotes about love and life and friendship

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators. ~George Orwell



Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. ~Mark Twain



Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust



If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~Carl Sagan



No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb



Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. ~Jay Leno



No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ~Arnold Bennett



Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. ~Kin Hubbard



Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb



Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb



To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb



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Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. ~Philip Henry



Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~Confucius



Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. ~Albert Einstein



The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. ~Author Unknown



God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? ~Proverbs 1:20-22