Celebrity gossips and images: April 2011

funny quotes about friendship

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. ~James Bramston, Man of Taste

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. ~Cher

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ~Henry Adams

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ~George Bernard Shaw

We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory. ~Evelyn Loeb

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx

Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray. ~Author Unknown

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. ~Joe Walsh

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. ~John Burroughs

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963

Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~A. Lawrence Lowell

Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley

God has entrusted me with myself. ~Epictetus

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. ~Martin Farquhar Tupper, "Of Discretion," Proverbial Philosophy

thinking about you poems

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life. ~Mike Ditka

The American is a gentle guy; but don't pressure him; if you do he turns toad and squirts poison. ~Martin H. Fischer

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. ~Paul Eldridge

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all? ~Vin Scully

Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. ~Doug Linder

The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. ~Joseph Addison

Old card players never die, they just shuffle away. ~Author Unknown

When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Hoss Sense and Nonsense, 1926

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs. ~Tom Wolfe

So let me remind you tonight that change will not be easy. That change will take time. There will be setbacks, and false starts, and sometimes we will make mistakes. But as hard as it may seem, we cannot lose hope. Because there are people all across this country who are counting on us.... ~Barack Obama, 2008 Jan 26, Columbia, South Carolina

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ~Alexis de Tocqueville

Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug. ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Joy Turner

You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. ~Author Unknown

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. ~William McGill

It's easy to understand love at first sight, but how do we explain love after two people have been looking at each other for years? ~Author Unknown

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams

funny quotes cats

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ~Mahatma Gandhi

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ~Douglas Adams

Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.com

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ~Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, Etats et empires de la lune, 1656

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland

He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him. ~Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. ~I Corinthians 3:6-7

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. ~George Washington, letter, 1789

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale

To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex. ~Lily Tomlin

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele Commager

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ~Pablo Picasso

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. ~Fustel de Coulange, La Cite antique, 1864

i miss you boyfriend quotes

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. ~E.M. Bounds

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Two souls, one heart. ~French saying used on poesy rings

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire

In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars. ~Horace, Satires In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. ~Carl Sagan, 1987

My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex. ~Alicia Silverstone

Think before you ink! ~Author Unknown

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ~Paul McCartney

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~Mark Twain

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. ~Bud Flanagan

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. ~Jacquie Phelan

First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time. ~A.L. Rowse, The Use of History

Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. ~Elizabeth Russell

All men are created equal, then a few become firemen. ~Author Unknown

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.... I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. ~Dave Barry

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ~John G. Pollard

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence. ~Jeremy S. Anderson