quotes on life and friendship
When everything is finished, the mornings are sad. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren. ~Author Unknown
The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. ~Hamilton
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran
When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko Bahrs
Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ~Oscar Wilde
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. ~Quentin Crisp, "The Art of Celibacy"
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. ~Ross MacDonald
Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 28 August 1952
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. ~Marshall Lumsden
Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires." ~John McSherry
Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another. ~Arnold Toynbee
History is written by the winners. ~Alex Haley
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. ~George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading. ~Kevin Smith
Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994 Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994