friendship quotes for boys

It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight. ~John Stevenson



One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923



You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. ~Anne Lamott



He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius



I named my kitten Rose - fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns. ~Astrid Alauda



Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. ~E. Knight



The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. ~Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958



Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. ~Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated



A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown



And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. ~Joseph Drake



The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth. ~Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1941



One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster



A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ~Elbert Hubbard



Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. ~Proverb



There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. ~Colette



The progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. ~Edgar Saltus, The Philosophy of Disenchantment



She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of plain good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, about the character Mag Wildwood



An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. ~Bergen Evans, "A Tale of a Tub," The Natural History of Nonsense



I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"