quotes about best friends

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~John Mortimer



If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power



We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? ~Morris Adler



Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue. ~Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978



You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. ~The Epic of Gilgamesh



There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well. Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level. They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman



The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ~Henry Louis Mencken



Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul. ~Attributed to Edward Plantagenet



Sex relieves tension - love causes it. ~Woody Allen



The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics. ~Stephen Samuel Wise



When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. ~James Thurber



All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. ~George Orwell, "A Nice Cup of Tea"



Skipping gives the adult a well-deserved break and lets the inner child be in charge for a while. ~Opal Montagne



There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A rustle in the wind reminds us a fairy is near. ~Author Unknown



Teach us to say: "I will arise." ~Richard Le Gallienne



Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. ~Arthur Young, Travels in France, 1792



The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. ~Morris Fishbein