best quotes for friendship

The study of history is the playground of patriotism. ~George M. Wrong



We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. ~Mark Twain



Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ~Alfred North Whitehead



The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. ~Dudley Moore



You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet



The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. ~Robert Frost



When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre



I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977



A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. ~Charles Evans Hughes



Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. ~Mark Twain



Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle



Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~Marcy DeMaree



A watched child never learns. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor ~Victor Hugo



Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. ~Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"



We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



You see much more of your children once they leave home. ~Lucille Ball



Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many. ~Robert Kirby



I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout... ~Paul O'Neil



Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ~Stephen Leacock